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Snow, COVID warning could dampen Super Bowl Sunday for CT restaurants FacebookTwitterEmail Medical personnel work in Hartford HealthCare’s new drive-through COVID-19 testing sight inside the parking garage adjacent to the Arena at Harbor Yard, in Bridgeport on Jan. 25.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media On the eve of Super Bowl Sunday, the Connecticut Department of Public Health warned residents to avoid mingling with people outside of their immediate household. But even as a forecast winter storm threatens to dump up to nine inches of snow on the festivities, restaurant owners say they s...

Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello says new virus variant could also explain situation - Anadolu Agency

The strain was found in a Twin Cities metro resident who recently traveled to Brazil.

Copy to Clipboard It is not yet known if the variant causes more severe illness (Getty Images) The first case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant, which originated in Brazil, has reached the US. Health officials confirmed that the first known case of P.1 Covid-19 strain in the US has been identified in a patient in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) announced on January 25 that its public health laboratory has found the P.1 variant in a “specimen from a Minnesota resident with recent travel history to Brazil.”  The announcement came as President Joe Biden signed a...

Negative COVID19 Test Required for Travel to UK (18 Jan 2021) Most travellers to the UK now need to provide proof of a negative COVID19 test result taken up to 72 hours before departure. Those travellers who are not exempt will also need to complete a Passenger Locator form and self-isolate for 10 days upon arrival in the UK. The quarantine period can be shortened to as little as 5 days if a traveller pays for a test through the Test to Release scheme, and that test also returns a negative result. It is very important to note that travellers nee...