INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The quickly approaching fall semester has America’s colleges under pressure to decide how far they should go to guard their campuses against COVID-19 while navigating legal and political questions and rising infection rates. Hundreds of colleges nationwide have told ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Everyone who enters Ohio State buildings, including medical facilities, must wear a mask indoors. The new rule made public Monday follows updated guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that people who are fully vaccinated should resume wearing masks indoors if they live in areas where the virus is surging. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Ohio has risen over the past two weeks from 468 new cases per day on July 18 to almost 1,200 new cases per day on Aug. 1, according to data collected by the Johns Hopkins ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The delta variant of COVID-19 is spreading through the area and Belmont County has been designated a high-transmission county by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has two criteria that determine a county’s transmission rate classification: total new cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days and the percentage of positive Nucleic Acid Amplification COVID-19 tests in the past seven days. Classifications are Low, Moderate, Substantial and High. A total of 0-9.99 new cases or 0-4.99 percent positive tests indicates Low; 10-49.99 new ...
WOODSFIELD — The Monroe County Health Department has reported that the delta variant has made its way into the county. On Tuesday afternoon, the health department announced it had received confirmation the variant is present in the county. Linda Masters, administrator of the county health department, said she was unsure just how many delta variant cases there are but confirmed there was at least one. She added that the number is not high; however, she could not specify the exact number of cases as of yet. Masters said the variant is much more contagious than past versions of ...
BOSTON (AP) — The eviction system, which saw a dramatic drop in cases before a federal moratorium expired over the weekend, rumbled back into action Monday, with activists girding for the first of what could be millions of tenants to be tossed onto the streets as the delta variant of the ...
DALLAS (AP) — Air travel in the U.S. is hitting new pandemic-era highs, and airlines are scrambling to keep up with the summer-vacation crowds. Despite rising numbers of coronavirus infections fueled by the delta variant, the U.S. set another recent high mark for air travel Sunday, with ...
