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Covid-19 News: Republican Governors Push for Schools to Reopen
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March 24, 2021, 7:47 a.m. ETMarch 24, 2021, 7:47 a.m. ET
The more transmissible and possibly more lethal B.1.1.7 variant is spreading rapidly as Arizona, California and South Carolina join Texas and other states in easing limits. The Dalai Lama receives his first dose of a Covid vaccine.
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Elementary school students in Salem, Mass., last month. Gov. Charlie Baker and state education officials have called for elementary school students to return to in-person learning five days a week in April, with older students to follow.Credit.Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images
Covid-19: U.K.-Based Variant Is Probably More Lethal, Scientists Say
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Feb. 22, 2021, 9:06 a.m. ETFeb. 22, 2021, 9:06 a.m. ET
In the U.S., more vaccines will be made available, but logistics continue to be a problem. Montana became the latest state to remove its mask mandate. A French mayor defied orders and opened museums.
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A Covid-19 patient in the critical care unit of a hospital in England last month.Credit.Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
LONDON British government scientists are increasingly finding the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain to be linked to a higher risk of death than other versions of the virus, a devastating trend that highlights the serious risks and considerable uncertainties of this new phase of the pandemic.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will attend a virus memorial event on the eve of his inauguration, and his team said he would revoke a Trump order loosening travel restrictions before it takes effect.