Grounded by COVID restrictions, skiers embrace the humble snow shoe
FILE PHOTO: People walk with snowshoes on a winter day amid lockdown measures during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in the resort of Semnoz in Viuz-la-Chiesaz near Annecy, France, January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse reuters tickers
This content was published on January 21, 2021 - 10:03
January 21, 2021 - 10:03
By Cecila Mantovani
ANNECY, France (Reuters) - No one relishes the COVID-19 epidemic and the death it has brought, but Philippe Gallay, boss of one of the world s biggest snowshoe manufacturers, acknowledges it has been good for business. Sales of his company s product have exploded.
In France, where Gallay s TSL firm is based, and in other countries, officials stung by virus clusters in ski resorts have closed chair lifts, button lifts and cable cars at ski resorts.
By Susan Heavey and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden attempted to jump-start the U.S. government s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, signing a string of executive orders intended to lead a country reeling from its worst public health crisis in more than a century. Biden takes office a day after the United States marked a total of 400,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began spreading widely last March. Vaccination programs have lagged far behind the target of 20 million Americans inoculated by the end of 2020. We re entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus and must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, Biden, a 78-year-old Democrat, said in his inauguration speech. The United States has reported nearly 200,000 new COVID-19 infections and 3,000 deaths per day on a seven-day rolling average, according to Reuters data. More than 123,000 Americans were hospitalized with COVID-19 as o
Stonington While public school systems across the region bounce between hybrid and all remote learning as they deal with COVID-19 cases, one private school and one parochial school here continue with in-person learning every day.
Both Pine Point School and St. Michael School have had students in class each day since the school year began in September. Both have returned to school from the holiday break and plan to continue through June.
Both are praising the cooperation of their students, families and staff for their success, as well as the physical attributes of their facilities Pine Point students go outside for lunch, recess and some classes while St. Michael just moved into the much larger quarters at the former West Broad Street school in Pawcatuck.
By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has slowed the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations after an explosive start last week, but can quicken it again after the country delivers inoculations to the elderly in care homes and at their houses, the programme s coordinator said. The nationwide rollout of the CoronaVac vaccine, produced by China s Sinovac, reached 1 million people in its first week. After 600,000 health workers were vaccinated in the first two days, the pace slowed to about 100,000 people per day as the campaign moved to care homes across the country. Logistically, our capacity is very high. The current dose numbers are considerably low for us, programme coordinator Tarkan Mustafa Yamanoglu told Reuters on Wednesday. The need to properly administer vaccines and limit contact to avoid spreading infections were other factors constraining the pace of the rollout, he said, as were the demographics of the people being vaccinated. We expect fluctuations in vaccination speeds depend