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Labor shortage could reduce US business after COVID

Labor shortage could reduce US business after COVID

Reggie Kaji’s employment agency received a strange request last year: Could you find 200 migrant workers ready to take a bus from Texas to Detroit, where they would be put up in hotels while they worked in a factory that makes car doors for the Big Three? automotive manufacturers? “I’ve never seen anything like it,” […]

Hong Kong closes its doors to eight countries and the world registers an explosion of COVID cases

Hong Kong closes its doors to eight countries and the world registers an explosion of COVID cases

The Hong Kong government announced on Wednesday that it prohibits the arrival of passengers from flights from eight countries in order to try to stop the spread of the omicron variant that causes an explosion of cases in the world. The ban affects flights from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, India, […]

Israeli Study Finds Fourth Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine Five-fold Antibodies

Israeli Study Finds Fourth Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine Five-fold Antibodies

Updated on 04/01/2022 08:16 am A fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is five times the number of antibodies a week after the injection was given, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday, citing preliminary results from an Israeli study. “One week after the fourth dose we know with a higher degree of certainty […]

After omicron, now appears the “flurona”, a mixture between flu and COVID: the first cases

After omicron, now appears the “flurona”, a mixture between flu and COVID: the first cases

Updated on 03/01/2022 08:04 am In the midst of the global health crisis, a new manifestation of COVID has emerged, it is the mixture with the flu, called “flurone”. The first case in Israel of this new infection was known at the weekend, and today in Catalonia, Spain. Although there is still very little scientific […]

Belgium agrees to buy 10,000 doses of COVID-19 pills from Pfizer and Merck

Belgium agrees to buy 10,000 doses of COVID-19 pills from Pfizer and Merck

Updated on 01/03/2022 08:00 am Belgium has agreed to buy 10,000 doses of each of the COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments developed by Pfizer and Merck & CO, a Ministry of Health spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement Monday. Governments around the world are rushing to buy Paxlovid, the pill developed by Pfizer. Molnupiravir, jointly […]

Dominican Republic sees strong rebound in tourism despite COVID

Dominican Republic sees strong rebound in tourism despite COVID

The Dominican Republic is preparing to receive about 5 million visitors this year, consolidating a recovery for the main tourist destination in the Caribbean despite the threat of the omicron variant, said the Vice Minister of Tourism, Jacqueline Mora. In a telephone interview, Mora said tourism was rebounding strongly from last year’s pandemic lows, with […]

JetBlue cuts about 1,280 flights through mid-January due to omicron obstacles

JetBlue cuts about 1,280 flights through mid-January due to omicron obstacles

Updated on 12/30/2021 07:46 am JetBlue Airways Corp will reduce its itineraries through January 13 by about 1,280 flights due to an increase in crew members who became ill from the omicron variant of the coronavirus, it told Reuters on Thursday an airline spokesman. Airlines have canceled hundreds of flights every day in the United […]

90% of COVID-19 patients in UK intensive care did not get booster doses

90% of COVID-19 patients in UK intensive care did not get booster doses

Updated on 12/29/2021 09:43 am Up to 90% of COVID patients in intensive care in the UK have not received a booster dose of vaccine, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday, once again excluding any tightening of restrictions before the New Year. . “I’m sorry to say, but the vast majority of people […]

The increase in global cases of COVID triggers tests and the fear of new quarantines

The increase in global cases of COVID triggers tests and the fear of new quarantines

Daily COVID-19 infections have reached record highs in the United States, swaths of Europe and Australia, with the rapid spread of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus that keeps workers at home and saturates testing centers. Almost two years after China first reported a cluster of “viral pneumonia” cases in the city of Wuhan, […]