CDC document warns Delta variant appears to spread as easily as chickenpox and cause more severe infection
Updated 1219 GMT (2019 HKT) July 30, 2021
The Delta coronavirus variant surging across the United States appears to cause more severe illness and spread as easily as chickenpox, according to an internal document from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Locked down with Covid cases rising, Sydney wonders how Delta outbreak will end
After five weeks of a tightening lockdown, they were not the words Sydney residents wanted to hear: the leader of New South Wales announcing another month of restrictions and telling the state to prepare for things to get worse, not better.
There was further anguish prompted by the daily Covid case numbers, which were rising daily, despite strict stay at home measures.
As Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of New South Wales, told Sydney its lockdown would continue until the end of August, many residents of Australia’s largest city wondered if life would return to normal before Christmas.
Coronavirus: EU vaccine drive picks up pace while US stalls
The European Union is now inoculating its population faster than the United States, but figures suggest that both have some way to go before they hit their previously announced inoculation targets.
The EU's once-faltering vaccine rollout has now overtaken that of the United States, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing figures compiled by Our World in Data.
But figuring out who is ahead in the race to protect their citizens from COVID-19 depends largely on how one crunches the numbers.
Beirut's historic Sursock museum still recovering from wounds of the blast
On August 4, 2020, the deadly Beirut port explosions devastated the historic Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum and some of its prized artworks. But a year later, one of the city’s most cherished museums is on its way to recovery. For the ornate building that houses the museum, it will be a new phase of a century-old relationship with the Beirut port.
As workers in the corridor manoeuvred construction gear, Zeina Arida opened the doors to the Salon Arabe in Beirut’s Sursock Museum and exhaled slowly, a smile lighting her eyes, as she entered the magnificent wood-panelled room.
Nestled on the museum's first floor, the Salon Arabe is a historic gem designed in the Orientalist diwan style complete with ancient Damascene wood engravings and Ottoman era flourishes.
‘Absolute nonsense’: Khan rejects claim Pakistan helping Taliban
PM Imran Khan denies report that Pakistani fighters crossed border into Afghanistan to aid Taliban in its fight against Afghan government.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has denied a report that Pakistani fighters have crossed the border into Afghanistan to aid the Taliban in its fight against the Afghan government.
“This is absolute nonsense”, Khan said in an interview with PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff.
(Editors note: Pakistan's ISI recruited, trained, funded and supplied arms to the Taliban. They were the ones that recruited Mullah Omar to lead the Taliban. it's founding leader.)
Japan expands virus state of emergency, restrictions to more prefectures
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency to four more areas in addition to Tokyo on Friday following record spikes in infections as the capital hosts the Olympics.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared an emergency in Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba prefectures, as well as in the city of Osaka, effective Monday until Aug 31. Emergency measures already in place in Tokyo and the southern island of Okinawa will be extended until the end of August, after the Olympics and well into the Paralympics which start Aug 24.
Five other areas, including Hokkaido, Kyoto, Hyogo and Fukuoka, will be placed under less-stringent emergency restrictions.
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