June 26, 2021

Has COVID-19 Permanently Changed How We Shop and Live?

WASHINGTON – Curbside pickup, grocery delivery and Zoom meetings became the norm for the many who stayed home at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as businesses looked for ways to survive during quarantine. But how many of those changes are here to stay? “I am actually not seeing many

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Delta Variant Prompts Some Countries to Return to Lockdown 

The delta variant of the coronavirus is sending Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh into some form of lockdown, along with parts of Portugal. Even Israel, where more than half of the population is vaccinated, is reimposing a mask mandate in enclosed public places. The variant, first discovered in India, has

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WHO Chief: Corona Delta Variant ‘Spreading Rapidly’

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday that the delta variant of the novel coronavirus has been identified in at least 85 countries and “is the most transmissible of the variants identified so far . . .  and is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations.” He also said, “As

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15 new COVID-19 infections reported Saturday morning

Vietnam has recorded an additional 15 locally transmitted coronavirus cases in five localities over the past 12 hours, bringing the total tally to 15,115 cases. Most of the cases were documented in quarantine or lockdown areas, the Ministry of Health said in its 06.00 am COVID-19 update. HCMC administration admitted

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Kremlin “regrets” EU rejection of proposed Putin summit

The Kremlin on Friday said it “regretted” a decision by EU leaders to reject a proposal by Germany and France to resume summit meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that President Putin was and remains interested in establishing working relations between Moscow and Brussels.

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Central region aids HCM city’s COVID-19 fight

Localities in Vietnam’s central region are joining forces with HCM city to combat COVID-19 which is ravaging the country’s largest economic hub.  The city detected an all-time high of 667 COVID-19 cases over a 24-hour period, from 6am Thursday to 6am Friday. Da Nang city sent more than 430,000 USD

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