By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Auckland, New Zealand s biggest city, emerged on Sunday from a strict weeklong lockdown imposed after a community cluster of the more contagious British coronavirus variant. There were no new local COVID-19 cases recorded on Sunday, health officials said, marking a full week of no community transmissions across the country. Footage on TVNZ, New Zealand s state-owned television network, showed people lining up at coffee shops on Sunday morning with many saying they were feeling relieved. Auckland, a city of nearly two million, will continue to have limits on public gathering and masks are obligatory on public transport. Restrictions might be further eased on Friday. Neighbouring Australia also had no local COVID-19 cases on Sunday, making it the 37th day of no infections this year. There have been no related deaths in 2021. Swift public health measures combined with aggressive contact tracing, border closures and compulsory quarantine for travellers
The method could represent a rapid and inexpensive way to repurpose existing therapies into new treatments for this progressive, debilitating neurodegenerative condition. Importantly, it could also help reveal new, unexplored targets for therapy by pointing to mechanisms of drug action.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government s top diplomat State Councillor Wang Yi on Sunday said China is prepared to discuss with other countries procedures for mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccinations, and that it is ready to work with the International Olympic Committee to help provide vaccines to Olympic athletes. China, which has developed several vaccines domestically, will host the Winter Olympics in February 2022, with Tokyo scheduled to host the Summer Olympics later this year. (Reporting by Gabriel Crossley; Writing by Tony Munroe; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
The United States has administered
87,912,323 doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Saturday morning and
delivered 116,355,405 doses, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said. The. | March 11, 2021