TOPEKA, Kan. A FedEx executive says a higher-than-normal volume of Christmas-season package deliveries won’t interfere with the company’s effort to ship coronavirus vaccine doses.
Jenny Robertson, a FedEx senior vice president, said two trucks on Sunday moved doses of a vaccine developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health from a factory in Olive Branch, Mississippi, to the company’s world hub in nearby Memphis, Tennessee, so that shipments could be loaded onto its airplanes bound for multiple states.
She said the company is keeping its networks for shipping the vaccine and handling Christmas packages separate.
“Nothing’s more important than the delivery of the vaccine to us, but we have put in place distinct networks that are keeping e-commerce moving through our ground network and vaccines moving through our express network,” she said. “We’re able to manage this volume right now.”
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December 20, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has announced new social gathering restrictions while still refusing to implement a mask mandate despite pleas from front-line healthcare workers in a state experiencing the highest new cases per capita in the country.
Instead of a mask mandate, the Republican on Sunday signed an executive order limiting public gatherings to 10 people. However, places of worship, weddings and funerals are exempt from the order.
He called the state “ground zero” in the COVID-19 battle and urged Tennesseans not to gather with people outside their immediate households during the upcoming holidays. His message comes just a day after Lee confirmed that his wife Maria had tested positive for COVID-19. Lee says he has tested negative but will remain in quarantine at the governor’s residence.
Dec 20, 2020
A worker wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, wipes his shop window behind a poster emphasizing an enhanced social distancing campaign at a popular market in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. The Arabic reads, leave one meter distance. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Here are summaries of the latest Associated Press stories worldwide about the coronavirus pandemic, including: Saudi Arabia suspends international flights; FedEx says holiday shipping won’t slow vaccine; New York governor wants seeks ban of flights from Great Britain; U.S. Government says nearly 8 million vaccine doses will be shipped Monday; Biden surgeon general pick says it may be mid-summer or early fall before vaccines reach general population;
Over 9,800 hospitalized in Texas with COVID-19, more vaccines on way
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FILE - In this July 27, 2020, file photo, notes to medical personnel are hung in an area as they prepare to ender a COVID-19 unit at Starr County Memorial Hospital in Rio Grande City, Texas. As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations rise, medical administrators are scrambling to find enough nursing help especially in rural areas and at small hospitals. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
AUSTIN, Texas – The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Texas continues to increase, as more doses of the vaccine are expected this week for front-line health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities.
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