A decrease in the rate of COVID-19 infections buoyed by other factors like having 12% of the population vaccinated has led Alaska s largest city to relax restrictions placed on businesses to combat the pandemic, officials said Thursday.
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January 28, 2021 By The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska A decrease in the rate of COVID-19 infections buoyed by other factors like having 12% of the population vaccinated has led Alaska’s largest city to relax restrictions placed on businesses to combat the pandemic, officials said Thursday.
The municipality of Anchorage will double the occupancy rate to 50 percent for bars, restaurants, storefront businesses, gyms, bingo halls and theaters as of Monday, said acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson. Last call will also be moved back an hour, with alcohol service ending at midnight.
Anchorage is averaging about 60 new COVID-19 cases a day, said Dr. Janet Johnston, the epidemiologist for the Anchorage Health Department. While that’s still considered high, it’s a level not seen since last October.
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UNITED NATIONS The United Nations chief is calling the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines a global emergency, saying more that 70 million doses have been administered but fewer than 20,000 vaccinations were on the African continent.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that while every country has the duty to protect its own people no country can afford to neglect the rest of the world.
He called vaccine nationalism both a moral and economic failure and said: We need a global vaccination campaign to deal with a global pandemic.
If COVID-19 continues circulating in the global south, it will inevitably mutate, Guterres told a news conference. New variants could be more deadly and more transmissible and threaten the effectiveness of current vaccines, prolonging or risking to prolong the pandemic significantly.
Teachers unions are driving lockdowns that hurt students most Print this article
The Census Bureau’s pre-pandemic statistics suggest that over 53 million children were enrolled in public school and over 4 million in private school, ages K-12, nationally. No longer.
When the pandemic began and officials closed schools, forcing students to learn virtually at first, it seemed like the right thing to do. At the same time, parents and children were assured the closures were temporary. Nearly a year later, research shows that lockdowns have had worse effects on students than most cases of COVID-19 in children. Unfortunately, no amount of evidence seems to persuade stubborn teachers unions to open schools.