Month: March 2021

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting two new coronavirus deaths on Sunday and 159 new cases.The number of Mainers with COVID-19 who have died rose to 706.Of the two deaths reported Sunday, one death was reported in Cumberland County and the other in York County.The 159 additional cases bring the total since the beginning of the outbreak to 45,794.The new 7-day average rose slightly to 167.4.There are 149,703 Mainers who are now fully vaccinated, which is just over 11% of Maine’s total population.MAINE CORONAVIRUS DATA: Deaths: 706 Total cases: 45,794 Confirmed cases: 35,846 Probable cases: 9,948 Cumulative positivity rate: 2.82% 14-day positivity rate: 1.2% Currently hospitalized: 67 Patients ...

Issued on: 07/03/2021 - 11:30 Noumea (AFP) The remote Pacific territory of New Caledonia, one of the few places on the planet to have avoided Covid-19, is to go into strict lockdown after detecting nine cases, local officials said Sunday. The outbreak on the French archipelago was detected after a school headteacher fell ill on the Wallis and Futuna islands -- another French territory in the Pacific -- leading authorities to screen for cases. "According to the first indications, the patient developed symptoms in mid-February and could have been infectious in Wallis and Futuna from the end of January," the head of the local government in New Caledonia, Thierry Santa, told report...

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He just didn’t know it would happen quite this fast. For much of 2020, most people — including most experts — weren’t particularly worried about the virus’s ability to evolve. SARS-CoV-2 was changing, but so far that hadn’t amounted to anything especially concerning. Then, in late fall, it jumped. Distinctive new versions of the virus sparked alarming surges in Brazil, South Africa and the United Kingdom. In a few short months, variants have become a global preoccupation. Nearly every time public health experts talk about the trajectory of the health crisis, they dwell on the variants, the loose cannon that could wreck hard-won progress. Their sudden emergence caught scientists off guard and set the stage for the next chapter of the pandemic. The mass vaccination campaign that could ha...

Until last week, all seven people who had died from COVID-19 in Clallam and Jefferson counties were mostly in their 80s, the highest at-risk age group for contracting the virus. That changed with the death, reported Friday, of a Clallam County man in his 50s. He contracted the virus while travelling out of state before dying at his home, Clallam County Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry said at her regular Friday briefing. As Clallam remains the most vaccinated county in the state and “well within” the moderate-rate category for the viral infections, Berry said his passing signals that North Olympic Peninsula residents should, with vigilance, continue wearing masks in public and practicing safety protocols. “It is a critical reminder that COVID-19 is still very much aliv...