Cremation limit lifted in LA County amid rising Covid-19 death toll 3 minutes read
By Alex Segura Lozano
Los Angeles, Jan 22 (efe-epa).- Air quality officials in hard-hit Southern California have responded to a backlog of Covid-19 bodies at crematoriums and hospitals by temporarily suspending a monthly limit on cremations in Los Angeles County.
“In Los Angeles, there are so many Covid deaths, and the backlog of dead bodies is so high, that they actually lifted the air restrictions on cremations,” Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, said in an interview with Efe.
Biden Seeks 5-Year Extension of Nuke Treaty With Russia: Pentagon
President Joe Biden made a decision to propose to Russia a five-year extension of the New START treaty that limits the number of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons, John Kirby, chief Pentagon spokesman said in a statement on Thursday.
The treaty, which restricts the United States and Russia to deploying no more than 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads each, is due to expire on Feb. 5.
“We cannot afford to lose New START’s intrusive inspection and notification tools,” the statement said.
“Extending the treaty’s limitations on stockpiles of strategic nuclear weapons until 2026 allows time and space for our two nations to explore new verifiable arms control arrangements that could further reduce risks to Americans,” Kirby said in the statement.