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Published January 22. 2021 6:27PM
Norwich Norwich Human Services, public schools and the Rose City Senior Center are assisting residents age 75 and over to register for COVID-19 vaccines and register for appointments at the senior center.
Residents age 75 and older can call the Rose City Senior Center at (860) 889-5960 on Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 25 and 26, to schedule appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 26 and 27.
“Many people do not have any idea on how the vaccination process will work and what they need to do to be registered,” Lee-Ann Gomes, director of Norwich Human Services said. “We want to have an all-out effort to educate our residents and assist them in any way possible.”
Groton The Groton school district will continue full remote learning next week, as 105 teachers and staff and 74 students need to self-isolate or quarantine, according to Superintendent Susan Austin.
The school district had shifted to full remote learning for this week due to a post-holiday uptick in cases, but Austin said the situation has only escalated since then.
She said in a communication Thursday to parents, guardians and staff that the decision to continue remote learning is due both “to the inability to provide appropriate staffing for in-person learning and for the safety of our students and staff.”
Austin said in a phone interview that, with community spread and increases in COVD-19 cases in Groton, the school district also is seeing cases in schools.
By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) - A new form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms is most likely caused by illicit vaccines, industry insiders say, a fresh blow to the world s largest pork producer, still recovering from a devastating epidemic of the virus. Two new strains of African swine fever have infected more than 1,000 sows on several farms owned by New Hope Liuhe, China s fourth-largest producer, as well as pigs being fattened for the firm by contract farmers, said Yan Zhichun, the company s chief science officer. Though the strains, which are missing one or two key genes present in the wild African swine fever virus, don t kill pigs like the disease that ravaged China s farms in 2018 and 2019, they cause a chronic condition that reduces the number of healthy piglets born, Yan told Reuters. At New Hope, and many large producers, infected pigs are culled to prevent the spread, making the disease effectively fatal. Although the known infections are limited