Perks on offer now include 50 three-day passes to the Governors Ball, 10 year-long passes to Crunch Fitness, Broadway tickets and “staycation” packages.
The US said Americans should avoid travelling to Japan, with the country under a State of Emergency that has sown doubts about Tokyo’s plans to host the Olympics in less than two months.
New coronavirus infections in the US rose at the slowest pace of the pandemic in the past week. At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that under-vaccinated areas in the US could become hotspots for a mutation of the coronavirus first detected in India and is increasing surveillance of the more-transmissible variant.
Seychelles, which has vaccinated a greater proportion of its people against Covid-19 than any other nation, said active cases of the disease fell 38% in the week to May 22 as a recent surge in infections continues to abate.
The Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio s Vax-a-Million has been the subject of jokes during late-night talk shows. It made headlines in news outlets across the country, and satirical news source The Onion even took a jab at it.
At the forefront of the conversation is Gov. Mike DeWine, who says raffling off $1 million prizes and college scholarships to vaccinated residents will help motivate those who have yet to get the shot.
Experts say the program has raised DeWine s national profile a year before his reelection bid and shifted the conversation around COVID-19 in Ohio but the move is unlikely to ingratiate him with Republicans who were unhappy with his pandemic response.