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The B.1.1.7 variant has likely grown to account for more than 20 percent of all new U.S. cases as of this week, and experts say it will likely exceed 50 percent of them by month’s end.
A few national federations have taken issue with the Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) for asking them to pay their annual accident and injury policy during a pandemic, when no sports is being played and many of them are struggling financially.The aggrieved federations described the letter (a copy of which was obtained by Barbados TODAY signed by the BOA secretary-general Erskine Simmons and dated March 1 as “unconscionable”.They believe at a time when individuals are struggling financially and jobs are hard to come by that the BOA should be the ones covering the cost of this policy. This...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – West Indies have identified winning as their main priority ahead of the their three-match Twenty20 International series against Sri Lanka starting Wednesday, with captain Kieron Pollard pointing to recently recalled senior players as crucial to these plans.Selectors last week handed a shock recall to 39-year-old fast bowler Fidel Edwards who has not played a single international in nearly a decade, and also summoned 41-year-old opener Chris Gayle who has not featured for West Indies in almost two years.
James Harden had 23 points and 11 assists and Joe Harris scored 21 points as the Brooklyn Nets beat the host Los Angeles Lakers 109-98 on Thursday night.Kyrie Irving contributed 16 points and seven rebounds for the Nets, who captured their fifth consecutive victory. Reserve Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot scored 15 points while making 5 of 8 3-point attempts. Harris was 6 of 7 from 3-point range.Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant (hamstring) missed his third straight contest.
Jan. ’21 By The New York Times·Sources: Israeli Ministry of Health (cases); Israel Democracy Institute and Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (population) Rivka Wertheimer, a 74-year-old Haredi homemaker, was among the most recent wave of infected people. Late one recent night, she was close to death. Two ambulances were parked outside her cramped apartment in north Jerusalem, ready to rush her to the hospital. Two paramedics were inside, ready to lift her onto a gurney. A nurse at her bedside said she had just hours to live — unless she left now. But the Wertheimers were not sur...