Cruise ships return, Cleveland Indians vaccine deal, Ohio numbers, more - coronavirus timeline May 1-7 Marc Bona, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – From vaccine news in Cleveland, Ohio numbers, India’s situation and more, here is our regular roundup of coronavirus facts, figures and numbers regarding Cleveland, Ohio, the United States and the world May 1-7, followed by our quotes of the week:
May 1
Ohio adds 1,707 confirmed coronavirus cases. … India reports more than 400,000 cases for the first time.
May 2
Ohio’s number of confirmed or probable cases increases by 985 to 1,075,004. … Two Carnival cruise ships return to the Port of Galveston in Texas, marking a positive sign for an industry that has been largely dormant over the past year.
From the return of cruise ships to news about Ohio’s numbers, India’s pandemic and more, our coronavirus timeline covers facts and news in Cleveland, Ohio, the country and the world May 1-7.
AFP Photo
NEW DELHI: When the Tokyo Olympics were postponed to 2021 last year, nobody knew what life would be like a year on from that time. Vaccines were being looked at as the ultimate protection. The vaccines have arrived and are still the best saviour in sight, but the trend of mutations of the Covid-19 virus has threatened to break that firewall at some levels.
In between all this, the indications from the International Olympic committee (IOC) and the organising committee in Japan have been that they are sure about pulling off the Games. But what would be the nature of the Olympics in that case? It certainly will be far from a festival .
Nurse Shortage Is Latest Obstacle for Tokyo Olympic Games By Stephen Wade and Yuri Kageyama | May 4, 2021
TOKYO – Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games. They say they’re already near the breaking point dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Olympic officials have said they will need 10,000 medical workers to staff the games, and the request for more nurses comes amid a new spike in the virus with Tokyo and Osaka under a state of emergency.
“Beyond feeling anger, I was stunned at the insensitivity,” Mikito Ikeda, a nurse in Nagoya in central Japan, told the Associated Press. “It shows how human life is being taken lightly.”