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AP Images December 18 - 5:30 p.m. Idaho added 1,069 lab-confirmed coronavirus cases and another 271 probable cases on Friday. New case numbers are continuing to decrease somewhat, but remain higher than at any point since before mid-November. Canyon and Ada counties were the two biggest hotspots this week, both tallying more than 1,000 new cases each. The state reported 18 deaths on Friday. Four people died in both Ada and Bonneville counties, two people died in Bingham county, and one person...

AP Images Dec. 17 - 5:45 p.m. Idaho counted another 28 deaths due to COVID-19 Thursday; case rates have begun to drop slightly. Ada County recorded 11 deaths; seven people died in Canyon County; Gooding County reported two deaths; and one person died in each of Bannock, Bingham, Bonneville, Boundary, Gem, Minidoka, Twin Falls and Valley counties.     The state added 1,145 confirmed cases Thursday and another 281 probable cases, for a total of 1,426. Idaho has recorded 105,898 confirmed coro...

EAST Lancashire is unlikely to come out of the toughest tier three coronavirus restrictions before the end of January, Blackburn with Darwen Council’s public health director has warned. After Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed that the whole county would remain under ‘very high alert’ rules until the Christmas relaxation, Professor Dominic Harrison said he did not expect any change when the government reviews them on December 30 and January 13. He said despite reducing rates of...

Professor Dominic Harrison EAST Lancashire is unlikely to come out of the toughest tier three coronavirus restrictions before the end of January, Blackburn with Darwen Councils public health director warned today. After Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed that the whole county would remain under very high alert rules until the Christmas relaxation, Professor Dominic Harrison said he did not expect to see any change when the government reviews them on December 30 and January 13. He sai...

AP Images Dec. 16 - 5:11 p.m.  According to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s new vaccine tracker, 119 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered by Wednesday morning.    Still, COVID-19 deaths continue to climb. Seventeen more deaths were recorded on Wednesday, and 1,231 Idahoans have died due to COVID-19 since March.    State health officials added 1,013 confirmed cases and 420 more probable cases on Wednesday for a total of 1,433 daily cases. There have now been ...

RESIDENTS in Dorset and the south west are overwhelmingly in support of taking the Covid-19 vaccination according to a survey. The survey, by Medicspot, revealed that 68 per cent of participants said they are willing to have the jab as soon as it is available. Of the 2,000 adults surveyed, only 10 per cent said they would refuse to take it, with 21 per cent stating they were still unsure. The survey also looked at how people in the south west who didn’t want the vaccine could be incen...

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We are ready to comply with FG’s directive on NIN/SIM card update ― Airtel We are ready to comply with FG’s directive on NIN/SIM card update ― Airtel Share One of the frontline telecommunications service providers in the country, Airtel Nigeria, has said it is more than ready to carry out the Federal Government’s new directive on SIM Card update. As a follow up to its earlier directive on the suspension of new SIM registration by network operators, the Federal government had, recentl...

NEARLY a fifth of people in the North West who do not want the Covid vaccine would be prepared to have the jab if it meant they could go the pub, according to a survey. Medicspot, a leading provider of coronavirus PCR tests and healthcare services, carried out a survey of 2,000 UK adults which revealed only 17% would refuse have the vaccine. A further 19% stated that they were still unsure. North West residents were overwhelmingly in support of taking the Covid-19 vaccination with 6 in ...

Detail from Michelangelos Jeremiah on the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel. Henry (Hank) Millstein is a long-time peace, interfaith, and labor activist living in Northern California. He’s a fiction writer and journalist whose work often appears in People’s World, and he’s a longtime member of the National Writers Union. Staff writer Eric A. Gordon sat Hank down for a friendly chat about his newest book. People’s World: The biblical world opens a ripe and rich field for writers to extrapol...