U.S. military bases in and around the Japanese capital are asking service members to save power amid a recent cold snap and earthquake that damaged power plants.
Yokota is confident enough of its public health measures that it has scheduled its Sakura Spring Festival, canceled two years running due to the coronavirus pandemic, for late March.
Funeral home running out of granite for headstones as U.S. COVID-19 deaths reach 500,000
The number of lives lost from COVID-19 in the U.S. reached half a million Monday, with the real total likely even higher. The figure represents roughly one in 670 Americans who died of the virus since the pandemic began in early 2020.
The total reached 300,000 in the first 10 months of the pandemic, with another 200,000 more deaths just since mid-December. This is a horrible landmark that we ve now reached, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CBS This Morning Monday. And even though the number are coming down, as you you ve shown, on the deflection of cases and hospitalizations, we really can t declare victory quite yet.