Some in US Not Ready to Give Up Face Masks
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Two women one with a mask, one without walk along Roosevelt Avenue in the Queens borough of New York, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
More than 120 million Americans are now vaccinated against the new coronavirus. Local officials across the United States are easing social distancing. And many are dropping measures that require people to wear nose and mouth covers, or masks.
However, not everyone in the country is ready to surrender their mask. They have become the most common and
China Bird Flu Strain Infects Human in First Reported Case Globally
On 6/1/21 at 3:58 AM EDT
A man hospitalized with a fever in eastern China has been confirmed as the world s first human case of H10N3 bird flu infection, the country s top health authority reported on Tuesday.
The 41-year-old resident of Zhenjiang, in the coastal Jiangsu province, developed a fever and other undisclosed symptoms on April 23 and was admitted to a local health facility on April 28, China s National Health Commission (NHC) said in a press release on its website.
Last Friday, subsequent sequencing done by the Beijing-based Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention identified the pathogen as the H10N3 strain of avian influenza, said the NHC.
The CDC has issued a level 4 travel health notice for India due to the high Covid cases in India. In an advisory, it said that travellers should avoid all travel to India.
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