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C.D.C. Updates Contact-Tracing and Case Investigation Guidance
“The updated guidance is in response to changes in the nature of the pandemic and the increasing availability of new tools to prevent transmission and mitigate illness,” the agency said.
New York City Schools Will Lift Outdoor Mask Mandate
Masking inside the city’s public schools will still be required, as is the case across the state, but not outside on school grounds.
New York City Schools Will Lift Outdoor Mask Mandate
Masking inside the city’s public schools will still be required, as is the case across the state, but not outside on school grounds.
Cases Decline in Kentucky but Hospitalizations and Positivity Rate Remain High
Only 56 percent of state residents are vaccinated, well below the national average. “We would like to see all of those numbers get better,” Gov. Andy Beshear said this week.
What to Know About Omicron’s New BA.2 Variant
As the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus has become dominant worldwide, more attention is being paid to a less common Omicron subvariant that appears to be even more transmissible.
Red Covid, an Update
The partisan gap in Covid deaths is still growing, but more slowly.
Omicron Reveals Hong Kong’s Covid Dilemma
An Omicron surge has exposed the weaknesses of a system that was once a world leader in containing the coronavirus.
Germany Aims to Lift Most Covid Restrictions by Spring
Now that the Omicron surge appears to have peaked, officials in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Slovakia said they too would drop all or most of their remaining restrictions in the near future.
A remote island nation confronts its first confirmed coronavirus case.
The case in the Cook Islands emerged a month after the country reopened its air borders to travelers from New Zealand.