Serious COVID-19 outbreaks hit California colleges despite intense preparation
4 years, 2 months ago

Serious COVID-19 outbreaks hit California colleges despite intense preparation

LA Times  

This fall, as colleges around the country wrestled with how to reopen amid the coronavirus crisis, officials in California required a cautious approach. Fewer than 2,500 students at San Diego State University were allowed to live in on-campus dorms and only about 6,240 students are taking in-person classes — slivers of the 35,485 students enrolled at the school. It was a similar scene at Chico State University in Northern California, where officials cut the number of students living on campus from about 2,200 to 750 in hopes that returning students would not spread the illness in a county that had seen relatively few cases. “It’s such a wild card for us — it’s a wild card for any college town,” Debra Larson, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Chico State, said of the thousands of students living off campus. “We’re actively doing outreach to students living around campus to encourage them to get tested weekly,” said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, associate vice provost for student affairs and chief health officer.

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COVID cases keep rising in L.A. County due to FLiRT; Mayor Karen Bass tests positive
5 months, 3 weeks ago

COVID cases keep rising in L.A. County due to FLiRT; Mayor Karen Bass tests positive

LA Times  

Despite a recent increase in coronavirus cases, fewer people are masking now — including most of these guests at UCLA’s graduation in June. The latest count shows the most new coronavirus cases per day since February’s tally, as the virus’ winter peak was trending down. For the week that ended June 22, there were an average of 153 patients in …

COVID outbreaks hit workplaces, schools across California as summer illnesses worsen
1 year, 3 months ago

COVID outbreaks hit workplaces, schools across California as summer illnesses worsen

LA Times  

The summer COVID bump is worsening in California, with infections spreading at schools and workplaces, and hospitalizations ticking up. Among the work sites in L.A. County where there are active COVID-19 outbreak investigations are the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, CBS Studio Center Stage 18, the L.A. City Department of Public Works’ Bureau of Street Services, the Westchester-Loyola Village Branch …

LAUSD COVID-19 cases: Tracking the spread and outbreaks
1 year, 10 months ago

LAUSD COVID-19 cases: Tracking the spread and outbreaks

LA Times  

With students back in the classroom, L.A. Unified officials are reporting coronavirus cases discovered in the nation’s second-largest school system. The trend As of February 6, there were 766 active cases detected by the district’s massive testing regimen. There are one schools currently reporting more than 10 active cases among staff and students. Track coronavirus vaccinations in California Explore the …

In ‘zero-COVID’ China, a single case locks down an entire Beijing university
2 years, 1 month ago

In ‘zero-COVID’ China, a single case locks down an entire Beijing university

LA Times  

A man gets swabbed for a coronavirus test near a building of Peking University in Beijing on Wednesday. Chinese authorities locked down one of the country’s most prestigious universities Wednesday after finding a single COVID-19 case as they stick to a “zero-COVID” approach despite growing public discontent. Beijing reported more than 350 new cases in the latest 24-hour period, a …

Fewer than 425 Covid-19 patients in hospitals; Infection average drops to 46-week low
2 years, 7 months ago

Fewer than 425 Covid-19 patients in hospitals; Infection average drops to 46-week low

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands were treating 424 patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, according to the LCPS. Sewage surveillance showed a 15.7 percent decrease in coronavirus viral load found in sewer water during the second week of May when compared to the start of the month. Similarly, the number of people tested for the infection by the GGD also fell by …

With COVID cases rising, how close is California to new mask rules, restrictions?
2 years, 7 months ago

With COVID cases rising, how close is California to new mask rules, restrictions?

LA Times  

With coronavirus cases continuing to rise in some parts of California, the big question is when some local governments may decide a wave is big enough to intervene with new rules. L.A. County will move into the medium COVID-19 community level category once it begins reporting 200 coronavirus cases a week for every 100,000 residents. A universal mask mandate would …

60 students of Patiala law university test positive for Covid-19, hostels to be vacated
2 years, 7 months ago

60 students of Patiala law university test positive for Covid-19, hostels to be vacated

India Today  

The Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law in Patiala, Punjab, was declared a containment zone after 60 students tested positive for Covid-19. READ | Covid-19 worsens asthma in children, finds study India has been witnessing a spike in daily Covid-19 cases since the past few weeks, with several cases being reported from schools and colleges across many states. COVID-19 TALLY …

California surpasses 9 million coronavirus cases, equal to nearly 1 in 4 residents
2 years, 9 months ago

California surpasses 9 million coronavirus cases, equal to nearly 1 in 4 residents

LA Times  

At least once a week, Socorro Juarez dresses as a vaccine syringe and dances around, trying to convince fellow Latinos to get their shots. Over the last week, California reported an average of 4,587 new coronavirus cases per day — down 61% from two weeks ago. Recent weeks have seen officials throughout California move to relax some of the preventative …

Coronavirus haunting the medicos of KMC, 42 medicos tested +ve for Covid
2 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus haunting the medicos of KMC, 42 medicos tested +ve for Covid

Deccan Chronicle  

Hanamkonda: For the past four days, coronavirus is haunting the medical students of Kakatiya Medical College by infecting as many as 42 members so far, which included professors and the principal of the college in the district. On Sunday five students tested positive and on Monday seven more did so, of which four were medical students, two professors and one …

More than 62,000 LAUSD students, staff out with positive coronavirus cases as schools open
2 years, 11 months ago

More than 62,000 LAUSD students, staff out with positive coronavirus cases as schools open

LA Times  

Eighth-graders Katarina Weinzierl, left, and Isabel Ramos hug after not seeing each other since the end of last semester at Olive Vista Middle School in Sylmar. School board member Nick Melvoin said he has heard from parents who were worried about the high case rate identified by the district’s required testing for all after winter break. “That’s the point of …

Spike in California virus cases hitting hospitals, schools
2 years, 11 months ago

Spike in California virus cases hitting hospitals, schools

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — California is struggling to staff hospitals and classrooms as an astonishing spike in coronavirus infections sweeps through the state. The fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 is sidelining exposed or infected health care workers even as hospital beds fill with patients and “some facilities are going to be strapped,” Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said …

COVID-19 Cluster Grips College Hostels: 67 Students From MIT, 27 From Stanley MC Test Positive For Virus
2 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 Cluster Grips College Hostels: 67 Students From MIT, 27 From Stanley MC Test Positive For Virus

ABP News  

Chennai: As novel coronavirus cases spike in Tamil Nadu, new clusters are gripping colleges hostels in Tamil Nadu. The three clusters emerged from Stanley Medical College Hospital, Madras Christian College in Chennai and MIT in Chromepet near Chennai. According to a report on Times of India, 27 students of Stanley Medical College Hospital tested positive for the virus on Wednesday. …

COVID-19 case rates climb in students and teachers across local districts, mirroring county
2 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 case rates climb in students and teachers across local districts, mirroring county

LA Times  

Principal Jill Van Der Linden, left, welcomes parents and students back to campus for the first day of instruction at Lake View Elementary School earlier this school year. On Thursday, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District reported 336 cases of the coronavirus across its elementary, middle and high school campuses with highs of 53 and 51 cases among staff and students …

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is isolating COVID-positive students at hotels due to on-campus bed shortage
2 years, 11 months ago

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is isolating COVID-positive students at hotels due to on-campus bed shortage

LA Times  

The campus of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, which has had 338 on-campus students test positive for the coronavirus since Dec. 30. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo started housing students who test positive for the coronavirus at off-campus hotels after campus isolation beds filled up during the first week of classes this week, a university official confirmed. According to university …

Johns Hopkins professor SLAMS Ivy League universities for 'anti-scientific and cruel' COVID policies
2 years, 11 months ago

Johns Hopkins professor SLAMS Ivy League universities for 'anti-scientific and cruel' COVID policies

Daily Mail  

Johns Hopkins University medical professor Marty Makary has slammed universities for their COVID policies in a new essay A Johns Hopkins University medical professor slammed America's elite universities - including those in the Ivy League - for 'anti-scientific and cruel' COVID policies that ignore how little risk the virus actually poses to college students. Pakistani student Varsha Thebo, 27, is …

IIT Kharagpur Reports 60 Covid Cases; Campus Opening Up Postponed
2 years, 11 months ago

IIT Kharagpur Reports 60 Covid Cases; Campus Opening Up Postponed

News 18  

Sixty persons, including 40 students and researchers residing on IIT Kharagpur’s campus have tested positive for Covid-19, an official said Tuesday. Most of those infected are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic and either at home isolation or at isolation wards created in the prestigious engineering institution’s hostels, Tamal Nath, IIT Kharagpur’s Registrar told PTI. He said after the institute’s convocation on …

It’s March 2020 COVID deja vu for college students as new term begins
2 years, 11 months ago

It’s March 2020 COVID deja vu for college students as new term begins

LA Times  

The start of 2022 at the University of California feels like March 2020 deja vu for some students. Most campuses started the winter quarter Monday with two weeks of remote classes — a decision announced days before Christmas as Omicron cases prompted new warnings for caution from health experts and public officials. “If I’m honest, I’m concerned that I won’t …

Hospitals see big jumps in COVID-19 patients, but this surge is different from last winter
2 years, 11 months ago

Hospitals see big jumps in COVID-19 patients, but this surge is different from last winter

LA Times  

Registered nurse Akiko Gordon, left, and respiratory therapist Janssen Redondo tend to a COVID-19 patient inside the ICU at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles on Friday. The number of coronavirus-positive patients has spiked dramatically across Southern California since Christmas — but some health officials are noting important differences in how the latest surge is playing out …

How worried should California be about another winter COVID-19 surge? What we know
3 years, 1 month ago

How worried should California be about another winter COVID-19 surge? What we know

LA Times  

Mayra Navarrete, 13, receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Noleen Nobleza at a clinic set up in the parking lot of CalOptima in Orange on Aug. 28. Officials and experts largely agree that California is unlikely to see a surge that reaches the grim heights of last winter’s — which overloaded hospitals with COVID-19 patients and …

ACT records nine new COVID-19 cases as more students return to campus
3 years, 2 months ago

ACT records nine new COVID-19 cases as more students return to campus

ABC  

The ACT has recorded nine new cases of COVID-19, with 88 per cent of Canberrans aged 12 and over now fully vaccinated. Key points: After months of remote learning, thousands of school students have returned to campus in Canberra today After months of remote learning, thousands of school students have returned to campus in Canberra today ACT Education Minister Yvette …

Senior school students in Queensland frustrated and distracted by COVID-19 home quarantine
3 years, 3 months ago

Senior school students in Queensland frustrated and distracted by COVID-19 home quarantine

ABC  

Students from a Brisbane high school have revealed the frustrations and distractions of being forced to self-isolate in the wake of Queensland's latest COVID-19 cluster. Key points: Hundreds of senior school students are learning in home quarantine ahead of final exams Students have not been told if they will be given special considerations Three men who were believed to have …

Queensland records two locally acquired COVID-19 cases in Brisbane students linked to Sunnybank cluster
3 years, 3 months ago

Queensland records two locally acquired COVID-19 cases in Brisbane students linked to Sunnybank cluster

ABC  

Two Brisbane school students have tested positive to COVID-19 but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says authorities are a "lot more comfortable" about the state's most recent outbreak. Key points: The cases from the Sunnybank cluster have been in home quarantine 38 per cent of eligible Queenslanders are now fully vaccinated The vaccination program has opened for 12- to 15-year-olds Ms Palaszczuk …

Urban California taming virus surge, but areas with low vaccination rates still in danger
3 years, 3 months ago

Urban California taming virus surge, but areas with low vaccination rates still in danger

LA Times  

Tracy Jones, a licensed vocational nurse, places a bandage on the arm of Angel Macias, 12, a San Fernando seventh-grader, after giving the student a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Coronavirus cases are showing new signs of slowing across many parts of the state, led by improvements in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, while other areas …

Liberty University's COVID spike causes campus-wide quarantine
3 years, 3 months ago

Liberty University's COVID spike causes campus-wide quarantine

Salon  

Liberty University announced that it was instituting campus-wide quarantine on Thursday amid a recent surge in the school's COVID-19 cases. According to Lynchburg, Virginia's college COVID-19 tracker, Liberty – which includes 5,000 students and 5,000 faculty members – currently has 159 active cases of COVID-19, a marked spike from 141 last September. Liberty made headlines in March of last year …

Coronavirus cases lead to missed school days for 6,500 LAUSD students during first week
3 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus cases lead to missed school days for 6,500 LAUSD students during first week

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Unified School District released coronavirus testing results for the first week of school. Coronavirus cases resulted in 6,500 students missing one or more days during the first week of school in the Los Angeles Unified School District as officials responded to early results from the largest school-based coronavirus testing effort in the nation. The district also released …

California sees signs Delta surge is slowing. New challenge looms
3 years, 4 months ago

California sees signs Delta surge is slowing. New challenge looms

LA Times  

California enters a crucial phase in its battle against the Delta variant this week — the reopening of schools — with some hopeful signs: The number of people being infected and falling seriously ill with COVID-19 is no longer accelerating at dramatic rates and even beginning to flatten in some areas. Epidemiologists and infectious disease experts credited the combination of …

Doctor: S Carolina schools facing more virus cases in fall
3 years, 4 months ago

Doctor: S Carolina schools facing more virus cases in fall

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina schools will undoubtedly face more COVID-19 outbreaks this fall as students return to classrooms amid the delta variant’s rapid spread, a top state health official forecasted Wednesday. Districts could try to keep students and staff safe by implementing widespread masking, social distancing and other public health measures proven to keep virus spread minimal, State Epidemiologist …

Class of 2020: 'The reality of being at university during Covid– and what this year's freshers should know'
3 years, 4 months ago

Class of 2020: 'The reality of being at university during Covid– and what this year's freshers should know'

The Telegraph  

Looking back, it was never going to be a normal start for first year students. As soon as term began last September, almost 2,000 freshers at Manchester Metropolitan University were ordered to self-isolate after hundreds tested positive for coronavirus. Things were tense, and on Nov 5, the first day of England’s second national lockdown, thousands of students at Manchester University …

‘This is not sustainable’: California hospitals filling again as Delta variant rages
3 years, 4 months ago

‘This is not sustainable’: California hospitals filling again as Delta variant rages

LA Times  

COVID-19 patient Jorge Hernandez, 64, does a lung exercise with his incentive spirometer inside Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance. California COVID-19 hospitalizations rise sharply across Southern California as surge continues COVID-19 hospitalizations have essentially doubled across much of California over the past two weeks — a troubling trend officials say illustrates the pandemic’s continued potency amid an …

COVID-19 hospitalizations rise sharply across Southern California as surge continues
3 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 hospitalizations rise sharply across Southern California as surge continues

LA Times  

Calvin Denny, 12, receives his Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Kyle Carson, an EMT with FirstMed Ambulance Services on Aug. 2 in Arleta, Calif. COVID-19 hospitalizations have essentially doubled across much of California over the last two weeks — a troubling trend officials say illustrates the pandemic’s continued potency amid an ongoing surge in infections. The most populated Southern California counties …

CSU to require COVID-19 vaccinations for students, faculty, staff on campus this fall
3 years, 4 months ago

CSU to require COVID-19 vaccinations for students, faculty, staff on campus this fall

LA Times  

California State University — the nation’s largest four-year public university system — will require students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to campus for the fall semester. “This new provision allows some way for campuses to stay in control over how this vaccine mandate is implemented.” Cal State’s process will largely rely on trust, spokesperson Mike …

UC mandates COVID-19 vaccinations and will bar most students without them from campus
3 years, 5 months ago

UC mandates COVID-19 vaccinations and will bar most students without them from campus

LA Times  

A lone jogger runs past Royce Hall on a nearly empty UCLA campus. As the highly contagious Delta variant spreads amid lower vaccination rates among younger people, unvaccinated students without approved exemptions will be barred from in-person classes, events and campus facilities, including housing — and not all classes will be offered online, a UC memo outlining the mandate said. …

California unveils sweeping plan for full reopening on June 15 as COVID fades
3 years, 7 months ago

California unveils sweeping plan for full reopening on June 15 as COVID fades

LA Times  

Jonathan Skogmo, CEO and founder of Jukin Media, Inc., walks through a deserted portion of the company’s offices in Culver City on May 20, 2021. Come June 15, Californians will wake up to a world that looks nothing like the last year-plus — one where businesses can open their doors without COVID-19 constraints on capacity or requirements for physical distancing, …

In dramatic turnaround, California now has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the U.S.
3 years, 7 months ago

In dramatic turnaround, California now has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the U.S.

LA Times  

Seven-year-old Chloe Choi, right, peeks while sister Bella, 4, turns away as their dad gets his first COVID-19 shot at a Santa Ana vaccination site on Thursday. Months after a coronavirus surge sickened hundreds of thousands of people, left thousands dead and pushed hospitals to their breaking point, California’s virus case rate is now the lowest of any state in …

California's public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine
3 years, 8 months ago

California's public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two of the nation’s largest …

California’s public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine
3 years, 8 months ago

California’s public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Two of the nation’s largest university systems say they intend to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on University of California and California State University campuses this fall. “Together, the CSU and UC enroll and employ more than one million students and employees across 33 major university campuses, so this is the most comprehensive …

A growing number of US colleges and universities are requiring students to get Covid-19 vaccinations
3 years, 8 months ago

A growing number of US colleges and universities are requiring students to get Covid-19 vaccinations

CNN  

CNN — As colleges and universities nationwide make plans to welcome back students in the fall, a growing number have announced they will require all students to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 before returning to campus. Universities have been implementing vaccination policies since late March, when Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, became one of the first to say …

California’s COVID-19 ‘honeymoon’ has been glorious. But it could end soon
3 years, 8 months ago

California’s COVID-19 ‘honeymoon’ has been glorious. But it could end soon

LA Times  

Is California headed toward a spring COVID-19 surge? California’s number of average daily coronavirus cases is down 16% over the past two weeks, falling to fewer than 3,000 cases a day. I wouldn’t be surprised,” said Dr. Stefano Bertozzi, professor of health policy and dean emeritus of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, said at a UC San Francisco …

102 Students, Staff Members Test Covid-19 Positive in Andhra University, Hostel Made into Isolation Ward
3 years, 8 months ago

102 Students, Staff Members Test Covid-19 Positive in Andhra University, Hostel Made into Isolation Ward

News 18  

Authorities have turned a hostel block of Andhra University Engineering College, Visakhapatnam into an isolation ward after 102 students have tested positive for novel coronavirus on Sunday. The Engineering College Covid-19 cluster came to light when over 50 students tested positive on Saturday. College authorities told The News Minute that as of Sunday 102 Covid-19 cases have been recorded on …

COVID-19 in Maharashtra: 39 students, five staff test positive for coronavirus at Latur hostel
3 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19 in Maharashtra: 39 students, five staff test positive for coronavirus at Latur hostel

Firstpost  

The infected students and employees have been quarantined at a government hostel near the city in central Maharashtra, an official said Latur: As many as 39 students and five employees of a hostel have tested positive for coronavirus in Maharashtra’s Latur city, an official said on Tuesday. At least 360 students residing at the hostel underwent COVID-19 tests and 39 …

Students returning home for Christmas caused thousands of Covid infections, study suggests
3 years, 11 months ago

Students returning home for Christmas caused thousands of Covid infections, study suggests

The Independent  

The return of university students to their homes over Christmas may have caused thousands of extra coronavirus infections, modelling suggests. Mathematicians at Cardiff University found that coronavirus-infected students returning home from university over the festive period would, on average, have infected approximately one other household member with the virus. Professor Paul Harper, who worked on the study, said: “With the …

After lagging start, Newsom promises 1 million more California COVID-19 vaccinations in nine days
3 years, 11 months ago

After lagging start, Newsom promises 1 million more California COVID-19 vaccinations in nine days

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom set an ambitious target of vaccinating an additional 1 million people against COVID-19 over the next nine days, but offered few new details in Friday’s budget proposal indicating how the state would spend the estimated $372 million he says is needed to improve vaccine rates. Newsom said the state is ramping up efforts to ensure those who qualify …

California hits 2.5 million coronavirus cases, adding 1 million in less than a month
3 years, 11 months ago

California hits 2.5 million coronavirus cases, adding 1 million in less than a month

LA Times  

Coronavirus infections in California reached 2.5 million Wednesday, another alarming milestone that underscores an unprecedented surge that has overwhelmed hospitals and is expected to worsen in the coming weeks. And this will only lead to more severe consequences for our healthcare system and for everyone who lives and works in L.A. County,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer …

New, more infectious strain of coronavirus worries California
4 years ago

New, more infectious strain of coronavirus worries California

LA Times  

California state officials expressed deep concern about a new, more infectious strain of the coronavirus detected in Europe and South Africa, which led government officials to renew lockdown measures across much of England. “They should.” By Sunday, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria all said they would ban incoming flights from the U.K. Prime Minister Boris …

California’s Covid-19 case surge is alarming
4 years ago

California’s Covid-19 case surge is alarming

CNN  

CNN — Since the Thanksgiving holiday, California has faced a surge of Covid-19 infections unparalleled across the United States, leading to continued daily record highs in hospitalizations and deaths. “We’re experiencing an explosive and very deadly surge,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said December 16. Couirtesy Dr. Thomas Yadegar The California Department of Public Health announced …

ICU availability in Southern California at 0%, and it’s going to get worse, officials warn
4 years ago

ICU availability in Southern California at 0%, and it’s going to get worse, officials warn

LA Times  

Registered nurse Michelle Goldson works with a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital on Thursday. The availability of intensive care unit beds throughout Southern California hit 0% Thursday, and officials warned that conditions in hospitals are expected to erode further if the coronavirus continues to spread unchecked. “And the level of care that every …

In IIT-Madras Covid spike, positive cases rise to 183
4 years ago

In IIT-Madras Covid spike, positive cases rise to 183

Hindustan Times  

IIT-Madras, which has turned into a Covid-19 hotspot, added 79 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the total number to cases to 183 in December. “Next round of testing for everyone will be after ten days.” IIT-Madras has temporarily shut down its academic departments and research labs. Nine hostels on campus have reported positive cases and a high number of …

With vaccine, California enters new phase in the coronavirus pandemic
4 years ago

With vaccine, California enters new phase in the coronavirus pandemic

LA Times  

With cameras clicking and Gov. “We’ve gotten through SARS, MERS — nothing compares to this,” said Thompson, who has tended to COVID-19 patients since March, when the initial outbreak forced the state into a lockdown. “We are on the brink of a historic moment for our city: The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is beginning,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, director …

IIT-Madras Becomes Covid-19 Hotspot with 71 Cases, Sole Food Mess Turns Into 'Recipe for Disaster'
4 years ago

IIT-Madras Becomes Covid-19 Hotspot with 71 Cases, Sole Food Mess Turns Into 'Recipe for Disaster'

News 18  

One of the premier technical institutions Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has turned into a Covid-19 cluster with about 71 cases reported till date and some more are expected. The students allege the IIT-M’s decision to run only one mess is the reason for the large scale spread of coronavirus. On its part, IIT-M has decided to shutdown all its …

COVID-19 vaccine clears key hurdle in California and much of the West
4 years ago

COVID-19 vaccine clears key hurdle in California and much of the West

LA Times  

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech cleared another hurdle in California on Sunday, when a working group of scientists and experts endorsed its safety. Gavin Newsom said in a statement, “we are working hand-in-hand with local public health officials to get the vaccine out to the first phase of recipients.” California’s first allocation of about 327,000 doses is …

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