Covid is making its latest comeback in parts of the northeastern United States as BA.2 coronavirus variant becomes dominant in the country, officials, while urging Congress to pass new funding or risk the supply of future treatments and vaccines.
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(Photo : Photo by VALERIE BAERISWYL / AFP / Photo by VALERIE BAERISWYL/AFP via Getty Images) A Haitian police officer stands guard outside of the presidential residence on July 7, 2021 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. - Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assassinated and his wife wounded early July 7, 2021 in an attack at their home, the interim prime minister announced, an act that risks further destabilizing the Caribbean nation beset by gang violence and political volatility. Claude Joseph said he was now in charge of the country and urged the public to remain calm, while insisting the police and army would ensure the population s safety.The capital Port-au-prince as quiet on Wednesday morning with no extra security forces on patrol, witnesses reported.
(Photo : Mario Tama/Getty Images) San Bernardino Area Hospital Continues To Deal With Increase In Covid Cases
APPLE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 23: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) A clinician cares for a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on December 23, 2020 in Apple Valley, California. The 213 bed capacity hospital in San Bernardino County is currently treating at least 140 COVID 19-positive inpatients while operating at approximately 250 percent of ICU capacity. Southern California remains at zero percent of its ICU (Intensive Care Unit) bed capacity amid the spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. (not the actual story)
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(Photo : Photo credit should read Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) FUYANG, CHINA - JULY 4, 2021 - A citizen watches a live TV broadcast of China s first spacewalk of a space station astronaut at his home in Fuyang, Anhui province, China, July 4, 2021.
Chinese authorities have arrested an aerospace executive on Monday after being involved in an alleged brutal assault of two astronaut scientists last month who refused his request to join an international academy.
The attack was caught on video that has now begun circulating online, showing how the Chinese official, Zhang Tao, chairman of state-owned China Aerospace Investment Holdings, punched Wu Meirong and Wang Jinnian. The incident occurred after a dinner on June 6 in Beijing that was filled with alcoholic beverages.