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Orange Beach: Beach season is heating up, and the coastal region is getting federal money to help recover from tourism losses caused by the pandemic. The Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration said Thursday that it will provide the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau with $800,000 for a marketing program. The money will be combined with $200,000 in local funding. The agency is helping communities nationwide implement programs to counter economic hardships amid the pandemic, said Dennis Alvord, acting assistant secretary for economic development. “This investment will fund a strategic, multi-faceted marketing campaign designed to attract visitors to the Gulf Shores and Orange Beach area, resulting in continuous economic growth and job creation,” he said in a statement. Officials hope to boost business and reclaim tourists who couldn’t visit during the COVID-19 shutdown, which included the closur
Doctor: U.K. variant will be dominant strain in SD
April 9, 2021
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) The U.K. variant is expected to become the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the South Dakota, according to the state s epidemiologist.
South Dakota has 20 cases of COVID-19 variants, a number that hasn t changed in two weeks. Neighboring Minnesota is among a handful of states with some of the highest growth of more contagious variants.
Epidemiologist Joshua Clayton says more young people are being infected and they need to be aware that the U.K. variant spreads easier and can be more severe in some cases.