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Brazil Reports Record Deaths; N.Y. Eases Limits: Virus Update Bloomberg 3/3/2021 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- For the second consecutive day, Brazil reported a record number of deaths from the coronavirus. AstraZeneca Plc’s and Pfizer Inc.’s vaccines protected the elderly after a single dose in a new study that validates giving both shots to older people and spacing out injections. U.S. health officials called on Texas and Mississippi residents to keep wearing masks as governors there lift Covid-19 restrictions, saying it’s premature to abandon mitigation efforts. Mic...

Stockholm Hit by 100% Spike in Covid Cases in Just 3 Weeks Bloomberg 3/3/2021 Charles Daly (Bloomberg) -- In Sweden’s capital, the rate of coronavirus infections just doubled over the past three weeks, making a third wave seem almost inevitable. The surge in new cases follows a warning from the government of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven that Sweden might need to enforce legislation enacted earlier this year, allowing the authorities to impose what would be the country’s first lockdown since the pandemic erupted roughly a year ago. With the current infection rates, the ca...

The Latest: SKorean economy shrinks for 1st time in 22 years The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 21 1of21A man wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus, walks past in front of an advertisement of an opera performance outside of a theater in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 3, 2021.Lee Jin-man/APShow MoreShow Less 2of21Armelio Acosta receives the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a FEMA mass vaccination center at Miami Dade College, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in North Miami, Fla. This is one of four FEMA sites in Florida that opened Wednesday with c...