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Tokyo Athletes Have Covid; Johnson’s Swift Reverse: Virus Update Bloomberg 2 hrs ago (Bloomberg) -- Two athletes tested positive for Covid-19 in Tokyo’s Olympic Village, less than a week before the opening ceremony of the games. Southeast Asia continues to reel from a wave of infections, with Thailand reporting a record 11,397 new cases on Sunday. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson quickly reversed a decision not to go into full self-isolation following contact with Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday. France will not require Covid “health passes...

Two Olympic Athletes Have Covid; N.Y. Cases Rise: Virus Update Bloomberg 1 hr ago (Bloomberg) -- Two athletes tested positive for Covid-19 in Tokyo’s Olympic Village, less than a week before the opening ceremony of the games. Southeast Asia continues to reel from a wave of infections that has made the region an epicenter of the virus. Thailand reported a record 11,397 new infections, while Indonesian President Joko Widodo urged his ministers to adopt a “sense of crisis” as the country overtook Brazil with the most new daily infections in the world. In the U.K., Health Secretary Sajid...

Mark Levine’s lead in Manhattan borough president race holds, Brad Hoylman concedes Tim Balk New York City Councilman Mark Levine held his lead in the Democratic race for Manhattan borough president after the release of updated results on Tuesday. Levine’s path to the post cleared over the weekend after his top competitor, state Sen. Brad Hoylman, conceded. Hoylman bowed out after preliminary results released on Friday showed him trailing Levine by 8.8% in a final round of ranked-choice elimination. © Nina Cochran Democratic Manhattan Borough President candidate Mark Le...

POLITICO Get the New York Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories New York City is planning to fully reopen on July 1, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced — bringing back its businesses, restaurants, and cultural venues at full capacity for the first time in 16 months.

America is about to hit a 'vaccine wall' as demand drops — with or without Johnson & Johnson Andrew Romano © Provided by Yahoo! News When U.S. officials temporarily paused the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday to warn patients and providers of an “extremely rare” blood clotting issue that has so far affected just six of the millions of Americans who have received the vaccine — all six of them women ages 18 to 48 — many observers worried the abrupt move would stop a substantial number of Americans from getting vaccinated. But if you take a closer...