Updated on January 6, 2021 at 10:20 am
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As cases rise in the United States, new variant strains of the coronavirus are of increasing concern. Georgia officials said Tuesday they have confirmed the state’s first case of the COVID-19 variant first seen in the United Kingdom.
Health officials said Tuesday that lab tests found an 18-year-old Georgia man with no travel history is infected with the variant.
Cases of the United Kingdom variant have also been reported in Colorado, California, Florida and New York. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
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Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a letter to officials overseeing Operation Warp Speed earlier this month, urging national leaders to offer the city a larger shipment to help mitigate the District s shortage of COVID-19 vaccine doses.
The District will receive a combined 16,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Maryland and Virginia to bolster the city’s efforts to inoculate local health care workers amid a worsening pandemic.
Maryland and Virginia will each provide the District with 8,000 doses of the vaccine in hopes of offering the city’s 85,000 health care workers better access to vaccination, DCist reported. The states’ incoming package of vaccines will more than double the nearly 7,000 doses the federal government allocated to D.C., which was set to cover fewer than a tenth of health care workers employed in the District, about 75 percent of whom live in either Maryland or Virginia.
Updated on December 17, 2020 at 11:50 am
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D.C., Maryland and Virginia surpassed 10,000 coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday, leaving thousands of families grieving more than 10 months into the pandemic.
A total of 10,003 residents have died of COVID-19 in the region, including 90 people reported in the past day, according to state and city data.
It’s a positive sign that the rate of new infections is slowing. Over the past week, seven-day averages of new cases have fallen region-wide. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
If the panel endorses the vaccine, it would effectively clear the way for a second shot to the available in the U.S.
Updated on December 16, 2020 at 10:15 am
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D.C. surpassed 25,000 cases and Virginia surpassed 250,000 cases on Wednesday. Maryland isn’t far behind, coming in at about 241,000 total infections since the start of the pandemic.
However, the virus growth appears to be slowing: Seven-day averages are still high compared to any other point in the pandemic but have remained stable the past several days. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
While coronavirus has devastated communities of color, some African-Americans and Latinos are reluctant to jump in line for a vaccine created at record speed.