BATON ROUGE, La. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is extending pandemic restrictions on businesses and activities, and he’s warning the holidays threaten to exacerbate the states latest coronavirus surge.
The governor’s announcement Tuesday came as Louisiana reached its highest number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients since April.
Edwards’ rules were toughened in late November. They were set to expire Wednesday, but he is renewing them through Jan. 13.
He says that “it remains a very perilous situation for the state with respect to COVID.”
The state health department says at least 22,000 hospital workers and EMS employees in Louisiana have received their first of two vaccinations so far.
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. The Navajo Nation is reporting 151 new coronavirus cases and seven more deaths related to COVID-19. The latest figures were reported Tuesday by the Navajo Department of Health for the reservation that extends over parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The Navajo Nation has reported 755 deaths since the pandemic hit. The Health Department says the first doses of the recently approved vaccine made by Moderna have arrived at the Navajo Area Indian Health Service. The Navajo Nation is in a three-week lockdown requiring all residents to stay home except for dealing with
2020/12/23 04:30 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Colombia’s president says that Venezuelan migrants who are living in the country without residence permits won t be given free COVID-19 vaccines when those arrive in the South American country possibly leaving hundreds of thousands unvaccinated. In an interview Monday with Blu Radio, President Ivan Duque said that giving free vaccines to undocumented immigrants could “unleash a stampede” of Venezuelans crossing into neighboring Colombia to get vaccinated. “Our priority will always be Colombian citizens” Duque said, though he added that migrants who have regularized their status in Colombia would also be eligible for free vaccines as long as they fall into the categories that the Ministry of Health has outlined for who gets vaccinated first.
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BOGOTA, Colombia Colombia’s president says that Venezuelan migrants who are living in the country without residence permits won’t be given free COVID-19 vaccines when those arrive in the South American country possibly leaving hundreds of thousands unvaccinated.
In an interview Monday with Blu Radio, President Ivan Duque said that giving free vaccines to undocumented immigrants could “unleash a stampede” of Venezuelans crossing into neighboring Colombia to get vaccinated.
Duque said migrants who have regularized their status in Colombia would also be eligible for free vaccines as long as they fall into the categories that the Ministry of Health has outlined for who gets vaccinated first.