Articles filed under Health Crises
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Lower and later liquor license fees among latest Arlington Heights relief measuresDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Arlington Heights will extend some additional financial relief to local businesses - particularly restaurants - amid the ongoing pandemic and resulting second ban on ind...
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South Korea's cases, COVID-19 deaths spike againDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - South Korea has added another new 1,092 infections of the coronavirus in a resurgence that is erasing hard-won epidemiological gains and eroding public confidence in the...
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Pfizer to supply U.S. with additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccineDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Pfizer said Wednesday it will supply the U.S. government with an additional 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine under a new agreement between the phar...
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After months of calm, Thailand grapples with virus outbreakDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - BANGKOK - After managing against the odds to keep the coronavirus largely in check for most of the year, Thailand has suddenly found itself challenged by an expanding ou...
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A season of fear, not cheer, as virus changes ChristmasDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Montserrat Parello lost her husband eight years ago, and Christmas gatherings with children and grandchildren had helped her deal with her loneliness. But this year, the...
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In France, a pandemic dilemma over holiday rights for eldersDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - PARIS - Not once in the long months since the pandemic struck has 74-year-old Jean-Francois been able to leave his nursing home in eastern France to visit his daughter o...
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COVID-19: Eight more deaths in Northbrook, three in GlenviewDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Eleven people in Glenview and Northbrook died of COVID-19 in the past week and 246 new cases of the disease were diagnosed, the Cook County public health and medical exa...
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Global virus rules for Christmas: Tough, mild or none at allDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - In Peru, you can't drive your car on Christmas. In Lebanon, you can go to a nightclub, but you can't dance. In South Africa, roadblocks instead of beach parties will mar...
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Pritzker: More than 100,000 health care workers have gotten vaccine so farDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Illinois has given a COVID-19 vaccine to 100,991 health care workers so far, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday, as the state prepares for a second inoculation rollout in...
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Editorial: Let Legislature work remotely during pandemicDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Legislature should be able to meet, vote remotely in extraordinary times