WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential federal advisory panel has soundly rejected a plan to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans. The vote Friday, 16-3, was a blow to the Biden administration’s effort to shore up people’s protection against the virus amid the ...
WHEELING — Gov. Mike DeWine is urging schools to implement mask mandates amid a “surge” of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across Ohio. DeWine held a press conference Friday morning at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport to discuss the rise in cases and its impact on the health care ...
CADIZ — Harrison County has seen a significant rise in COVID-19 cases recently with more than 120 new positive cases reported in the last week. Garen Rhome, administrator of the Harrison County Health Department, said the department has reported double-digit case numbers daily. He said in the last seven days there have been 124 new cases with 35 percent of those being confirmed among minors. Though there is a high number of residents ages 17 and under who have tested positive for the virus, Rhome cautions that people not to assume they are school-aged. “There are cases that are ...
MILAN (AP) — Italian workers in both the public and private sectors must display a health pass to access their workplaces from Oct. 15 under a decree adopted Thursday by Premier Mario Draghi’s broad-based coalition government. The measures are the first by a major European economy ...
BRIDGEPORT — Due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the Bridgeport Exempted Village School District, a mask mandate is now in place. According to Superintendent of Schools Brent Ripley, the five-member board of education voted unanimously to institute the mandate until Oct. 20 after an hour-long executive session during Wednesday night’s regular monthly meeting. “It is for all students, faculty and visitors to the building during instructional hours,” Ripley said of the order. “We are trying to slow the spread.” He said no masks are required, at this point, ...
BELMONT — The Union Local School District again decided to require masks while officials wait and see how things play out with COVID-19 in the district, but at the public’s urging the board may devise a numerical target for lessening mandates. The board and a handful of members of the ...
