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The health department announced on Thursday that it will not allow anymore walk-ins for the day and that appointments were booked through Monday.

The plan, from the borough president Mark Levine and Dr. Jay Varma, a top health adviser to the former mayor, comes as the current mayor, Eric Adams, has been aggressively promoting efforts to rebuild the city’s economy in recent weeks.

While cases are starting to subside, the waning Omicron wave has only widened the gap between vaccinated and unvaccinated hospitalizations and deaths.

Declining new case tallies offers a sense of relief to virus-weary Americans. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

CHICAGO — New coronavirus cases have started to fall nationally, signaling that the omicron-fueled spike that has infected tens of millions of Americans, packed hospitals and...

Trends are encouraging in parts of the Upper Midwest and Northwest. But even as hopeful data points emerge, the threat has by no means passed.

Omicron cases appear to peak in US, but deaths continue to rise

The move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to end daily reporting of in-hospital deaths has triggered a flood of public opposition on social media and warnings by scientists.

New data from New York City shows the much higher risk for hospitalization and death than unvaccinated people faced as the initial Omicron surge swept through the city.

Eric Adams, who took office as mayor on Saturday, enthusiastically backs keeping public schools open and has urged companies not to let their workers work remotely.