By The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea â North Korea has told the World Health Organization that it has tested 25,986 people for the coronavirus through April but still has yet to find a single infection.
The WHO said in a weekly monitoring report that North Koreaâs testing figures include 751 people who were tested during April 23-29, of which 139 had influenza-like illnesses or severe respiratory infections.
Experts have expressed skepticism about North Koreaâs claim of a perfect record in keeping out COVID-19, given its poor health infrastructure and a porous border it shares with China.
North Korea has described its anti-virus efforts as a âmatter of national existence.â It has barred tourists, flown out diplomats and severely restricted cross-border traffic and trade.
Concord City Council endorses plan to sell former DES building for $350,000 and pay for asbestos clean up
An architectural rendering of the future Flatley Apartments shows the Northeast and Southeast corners of the building on S. Main Street and Fayette Street. City of Concord
An architect s rendering of the building shows the Southwest and Northwest corners of the building on Fayette Street and S. State Street. City of Concord
A site plan for the new Flatley Apartment building shows an aerial view of what the space will look like, with Fayette Street running along the top, S. State Street on the left, S. Main St. on the right and the Eagles Club building at the bottom. City of Concord
Reeves: Mississippi to drop federal unemployment supplement
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
May 10, 2021
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi will stop accepting supplemental unemployment benefits from the federal government next month, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday.
Reeves said the weekly supplement of $300 per person was intended to help people “who are unemployed through no fault of their own” because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“After many conversations over the last several weeks with Mississippi small business owners and their employees, it has become clear that the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and other like programs passed by the Congress may have been necessary in May of last year but are no longer so in May of this year,” Reeves wrote on Facebook.
By Paula Tracy, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD â Gov. Chris Sununu announced that as of May 23, everyone who is receiving state unemployment benefits will be required to show they are looking for work to continue to get those benefits.
With unemployment in the state at about 3 percent, Sununu said the stateâs economy is âroaring back,â but he is concerned about there being enough workers to fill all the jobs that are open.
âIf anything we are facing a worker shortage,â Sununu said.
Before the pandemic, the state required people who were receiving unemployment to actively be looking for work, he said. But with thousands of jobs going unfilled, âwe will be reintroducing our work search requirement.â
Concord has new offer to demolish downtown Employment Security building and add 64 new apartments
The former Department of Employment Security building on South Main Street has been empty for years. Monitor file
Possible appearance of the apartment building proposed to replace the Employment Security building at 32-34 S. Main St. The Flatley Co. Courtesy
Published: 4/30/2021 2:15:08 PM
The empty Employment Security building on South Main Street would be torn down and replaced by a six-story apartment building under a proposal that gets a public hearing next month.
The city has signed a purchase-and-sale agreement with the Flatley Co., one of the state’s biggest developers of commercial real estate. Under the plan Concord would sell the building for $350,000, slightly more than the assessed value of the land on the 3/4-acre parcel. Flately proposes to replace it with “approximately 64 market-rate apartment” with 54 on-site parking spaces, to be completed by the summer of