Ottawa Declares Emergency; China City Locks Down: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) -- Canada’s capital declared a state of emergency Sunday as police struggled to rein in ongoing protests largely among truckers against vaccine mandates. More U.S. schools are likely to begin lifting mask mandates soon as the overall risk from the omicron wave eases, said Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. But he warned, with infections still high in many parts of the U.S.: “We’re tragically still in this fight.” China put a city of 4 million people into lockdown. Beijing Olympics organizers reported 10 new infections among athletes and...