Inside a storefront on Lititz’s Main Street, there’s an explosion of colors and patterns, textiles and materials that seems to draw the eye everywhere at once.
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A health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a woman to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Monday, May 3, 2021. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldnât get a COVID-19 test.
Mahesh Kumar A - stringer, AP
FILE - In this May 3, 2021, file photo, a man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of COVID-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldnât get a COVID-19 test.
THE ISSUE
India has seen more than 20 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, and more than 226,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. The New York Times reported this Wednesday: âOfficial estimates of the nationwide infection toll â well above 300,000 a day â are probably undercounted, epidemiologists say. The reported figure will mostly likely rise to 500,000 cases a day by August, they say, leaving as many as one million of Indiaâs 1.4 billion people deadâ from COVID-19.
Lancaster County is still considered an area of high risk for coronavirus transmission, but trends appear to be moving in the right direction.
As LNP | LancasterOnline reports, âinfection rates remain high and spread of the virus remains a major concern,â but âcase and hospitalization rates are now showing improvement as more than half of the countyâs adult population is now at least partially vaccinated against the coronavirus.â
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A health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a woman to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Monday, May 3, 2021. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldnât get a COVID-19 test.
Mahesh Kumar A - stringer, AP
FILE - In this May 3, 2021, file photo, a man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of COVID-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldnât get a COVID-19 test.