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On Monday, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa reimposed a national ban on alcohol sales, while also closing down all bars, in an effort to combat a spike in the spread of COVID (with that spike also reportedly involving a new strain). The country had attempted to find a middle ground earlier in December by limiting alcohol sales to select hours […]
The pandemic has cost countless Americans their jobs, especially those who work in the live sports and entertainment industry. Just think about all the arena workers who will be out of work this NBA season alone. That’s why Kevin Love is doing what he can to offset some of those lost wages for the workers of Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, […]
Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer widely referred to as a “citizen journalist,” has been sentenced to four years in prison in connection with her reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pudong New Area People’s Court in Shanghai handed down the sentence on Monday, with the charges said to be “picking fights […]
President Trump signed the combined coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law, the New York Times reports. The president spent the week indicating that he would decline any coronavirus relief bill that didn’t include $2000 stimulus checks for every American. Lawmakers urged him to sign the massive bill that included $600 stimulus checks, fearing a government […]
Unemployment benefits expired overnight after Trump declined to sign a COVID-19 relief package that was set to pass without his grievances. Trump wanted larger stimulus checks included in the bipartisan bill and objected to “pork” spending. ABC News reports that without the package’s funding, the government is set to shutdown at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday as […]
The Cleveland Browns will be down multiple players headed into Sunday’s game against the New York Jets. ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen shared the news Saturday, reporting the team has placed its wide receivers Jarvis Landry, Rashard Higgins, Donovan Peoples-Jones, and KhaDarel Hodge on the reserve/COVID-19 list after they were deemed “high-risk close-contacts.” Browns linebackers B.J. Goodson and Jacob Phillips were also placed on […]
After experiencing early success and low case numbers during the beginning of the pandemic, South Korea just saw a surge of 1,241 new cases of COVID-19 on Christmas Day, making it the largest daily increase the country has seen yet. Another 1,132 cases were reported today, bringing South Korea’s total caseload to 55,902. According to CBS […]
An Illinois woman was opening a package from Kohl’s when she found a COVID-19 test specimen. The Associated Press reports that Andrea Ellis had ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden from Kohl’s. She was wrapping Christmas gifts at her aunt’s house in East Moline, Illinois when she tore the padded envelope open to take out the […]
The U.S. will now require U.K. travelers to have a negative COVID-19 test. The requirement, announced late Thursday by the CDC, marks the latest travel-related response to the recently discovered new variant of SARS-CoV-2. “Viruses constantly change through mutation, and preliminary analysis in the U.K. suggests that this new variant may be up to 70 percent […]
As the holidays are underway, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have shared Christmas messages, asking the public to keep exercising COVID-19 safety precautions and refrain from meeting in large groups. “Jill and I wish you and your family peace, joy, health and happiness this season. But we know for so many of […]
