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Mask mandate back on in Los Angeles as virus cases rise

Loading the player… Los Angeles County residents will again be required to wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status, while the University of California system said that students, faculty and staff must be inoculated against the coronavirus to return to campuses. The announcements Thursday came amid a spike in COVID-19 cases, most of them… Read More »

Two new virus cases in Qld amid lockdown

Queensland has recorded two new local cases of COVID-19 with a lockdown still set to end on Friday night. Millions of people in southeast Queensland, Townsville, Magnetic Island and Palm Island are in lockdown on Thursday amid five separate virus outbreaks, including three involving the more contagious Delta strain. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says one of… Read More »

In the UK, cases of the Covid variant identified in India have doubled in one week

Hounslow, London, which has become one of the U.K.’s biggest hotspots for the variant of coronavirus first identified in India, on Thursday 27th May 2021. Tejas Sandhu | MI News | NurPhoto | Getty Images Cases of the Covid-19 variant first identified in India have more than doubled in England within one week, the country’s… Read More »

Vic records four cases on lockdown day one

Victoria has recorded four new locally acquired cases of coronavirus on the first day of its seven-day, statewide lockdown. Acting Premier James Merlino confirmed the new cases are linked to the City of Whittlesea cluster, which now stands at 30 cases. There were also two new cases in hotel quarantine, bringing the total number of… Read More »

Malaysia now has more Covid cases per million people than India

SINGAPORE — Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 cases are climbing rapidly and have surpassed India’s on one critical measure, according to statistics site Our World in Data. India has been experiencing a devastating second wave since April and has the world’s second largest Covid caseload. The country’s daily case count, while trending downward, has remained elevated at… Read More »