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Pandemic postcard: COVID outbreak leaves Hong Kong in limbo

As a COVID-nineteen outbreak overwhelms Hong Kong, it's hard for its 7.four million residents to know what's side by side

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A man sleeps in front of a store for lease in the Central district in Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Hong Kong on Monday reported 26,908 new coronavirus cases and 249 related deaths in its latest 24-hour period. The city counts its cases differently than the mainland, combining both rapid antigen tests and PCR test results. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Florida couple pleads guilty to $881K COVID-19 relief fraud

A Florida couple has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $900,000 in COVID-xix relief funds

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Appeals court reverses ruling halting Alaska refuge route

A federal appeals court panel has reversed a conclusion that rejected a state swap aimed at allowing a road be built through an Alaska national wildlife refuge that is an internationally recognized habitat for migrating waterfowl

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How to return to exercise after COVID-nineteen infection: New guidance released

Eye inflammation later COVID-nineteen is rarer than doctors originally thought.

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Kentucky Senate passes bill banning abortions after 15 weeks

Kentucky lawmakers have taken another step toward banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy

March sixteen

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2020, photo, Kentucky Republican State Senator Max Wise stands at his desk on the Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. Kentucky lawmakers took another step Wednesday, March 16, 2022, toward banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with an eye toward a looming U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion rights. The Kentucky measure was passed by the state Senate and advances next to the House. By taking preemptive action, Kentucky's stricter ban would

China, UK feel rise in COVID-19 cases

As the U.Thou. deals with an uptick in COVID-19 cases due to the new omicron subvariant, ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel says the U.South. should expect to see a rise in cases before long, besides.

March 16

VIDEO: China, UK experience rise in COVID-19 cases

Canada to drop COVID tests for vaccinated visitors: official

Canada will no longer require a pre-arrival COVID-19 test for vaccinated travelers as of Apr 1

March sixteen

WHO Chief: World's worst health crisis is in Ethiopia

As much of the globe's attention is focused on the bloodshed in Ukraine, the head of the World Health Organization saya there is "nowhere on earth where the health of millions of people is more than nether threat" than Federal democratic republic of ethiopia'southward Tigray region

March 16

FILE - World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels, Feb. 18, 2022. As much of the world's attention turns to bloodshed in Ukraine, Ghebreyesus said Wednesday, March 16 there is

WHO: Evaluation of Russia'southward COVID shot has been postponed

The World Wellness Organization says its evaluation of Russia'due south coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, has been postponed for the time being due to the "uneven situation."

March sixteen

As immunity wanes and talk about a 2d booster rises, should Americans be concerned?

Vaccine efficacy against infection wanes, but does everyone need a 2nd booster?

March 16

Prepared Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine syringes wait for patients at a middle school in Wheeling, Ill., June 11, 2021.

Diabetes & COVID-19: Scientists explore potential connexion

Reports of rising diabetes cases during the pandemic have scientists exploring if there could be a link with the coronavirus

March sixteen

Japan to fully elevator COVID-19 restrictions as infections slow

Nippon'due south Prime number Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to fully elevator coronavirus restrictions on March 21 as new infections driven past the highly contagious omicron variant slow

March 16

People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus wait for walking on a pedestrian crossing at Ginza shopping district Wednesday, March 16, 2022, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Vietnam drops COVID-19 restrictions for foreign visitors

Vietnam has scrapped quarantine and other travel restrictions for strange visitors in an endeavour to fully reopen its border after 2 years of pandemic-related closure, the authorities said

March sixteen

People wearing face masks pass by shops opened and closed in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Vietnam on Wednesday scrapped quarantine and other travel restrictions for foreign visitors in an effort to fully reopen its border after two years of pandemic-related closure, the government said. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

UK easing COVID-19 testing, monitoring despite case uptick

Britain is catastrophe some of its most comprehensive COVID-19 testing and monitoring programs

March 16

FILE - A lab assistant points at charts of a sequenced Covid-19 virus at the Wellcome Sanger Institute that is operated by Genome Research in Cambridge, England, Thursday, March 4, 2021. After dropping most coronavirus restrictions in February 2022, Britain is now ending some COVID-19 testing and monitoring programs, a move some scientists fear will complicate efforts to track the virus and detect worrisome new variants. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Republic of haiti'southward health professionals go on strike over kidnappings

Thousands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals across Haiti take gone on strike to protest a spike in gang-related kidnappings

March 16

Pandemic preparedness bill moves alee; funding still needed

A Senate committee has approved a bipartisan pattern to overhaul the nation's public wellness system, applying the lessons of COVID-nineteen to future outbreaks through a new chain of command, a stronger medical supply concatenation, and clearer crunch communications

March sixteen

FILE - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Feb. 1, 2022, in Washington. A Senate committee on Tuesday, March 15, approved a bipartisan blueprint to overhaul the nation's public health system. Murray and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., worked for over a year on the contours of the bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Ex-biotech executives sentenced for Genentech trade theft

Two co-founders of a Taiwan biotechnology company have been sentenced for conspiracy to steal trade secrets from Genentech in a $101 million scheme

March 15

Idaho hospital locks downwardly amid far-correct call for protest

A major Boise hospital was locked downward for near an hour after far-right activist Ammon Bundy urged supporters to head at that place to protestation a child protection case involving a family friend

March fifteen

Pfizer asks United states of america to allow 4th COVID vaccine dose for seniors

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech asked U.S. regulators to authorize an boosted booster dose of their COVID-19 vaccine for seniors

March xv

FILE - Prepared Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine syringes wait for patients at a middle school in Wheeling, Ill., Friday, June 11, 2021. As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the millions that have already gone to waste. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Pandemic preparedness bill moves ahead; funding still needed

A Senate committee has canonical a bipartisan design to overhaul the nation'due south public wellness system, applying the lessons of COVID-xix to future outbreaks through a new concatenation of command, a stronger medical supply chain, and clearer crunch communications

March fifteen

FILE - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Feb. 1, 2022, in Washington. A Senate committee on Tuesday, March 15, approved a bipartisan blueprint to overhaul the nation's public health system. Murray and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., worked for over a year on the contours of the bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Tennessee lawmakers introduce Texas-styled abortion bill

Tennessee Republicans are advancing yet some other strict anti-ballgame measure strategically written to sidestep federal court challenges

March 15

FILE - The Tennessee House of Representatives meets Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. A lawsuit backed by the Tennessee Democratic Party seeks to block new redistricting maps for the state House and Senate, arguing Republican lawmakers who drew the maps violated the state Constitution to keep a firm grip on their partisan advantages. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Biden signs upkeep bill with Ukraine aid only no virus cash

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill providing Ukraine with $thirteen.6 billion in boosted military and humanitarian assistance as office of a $ane.5 trillion measure funding the U.Southward. government for the year

March 15

President Joe Biden speaks at the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference, Monday, March 14, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

AP Source: Pfizer expected to request authorization this calendar week for additional COVID-19 vaccine booster dose for seniors

AP Source: Pfizer expected to request authorization this calendar week for boosted COVID-nineteen vaccine booster dose for seniors

March 15

The states funeral assist for COVID tops $2B, more eligible

The federal authorities has provided more $2 billion to assistance cover funeral costs for more than than 300,000 families of people who died from COVID-19

March 15

FILE - With the Washington Monument in the background, people look at white flags that are part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's temporary art installation, "In America: Remember," in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington, Sept. 17, 2021. The installation consists of more than 630,000 flags. The federal government has provided more than $2 billion to help cover funeral costs for more than 300,000 families of people who died from COVID-19, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Tuesday as launches a new campaign to raise awareness for the aid to the families of the more than 965,000 people who have died in the U.S. from the virus. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Dutch to drib last remaining COVID-19 restrictions side by side calendar week

The Dutch government says information technology will drop its last remaining COVID-19 restrictions next calendar week despite a recent rise in infections as the nation learns to live with the coronavirus

March 15

Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, gestures qs he steaks to the media before a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte is for bileteral talks in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Chinese virus cases climb, raise threat of trade disruption

Anti-virus controls take forced automobile and electronics makers to close factories in China and are raising risks of wider disruptions if the curbs spread to Chinese ports that are among the world's busiest

March 15

A medical worker takes swab sample from a resident for COVID-19 test in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province Tuesday, March 15, 2022. China's new COVID-19 cases Tuesday more than doubled from the previous day as it faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. (Chinatopix via AP)

Republic of korea reports tape deaths amid omicron surge

Republic of korea had its deadliest twenty-four hours still of the pandemic on Tuesday, with 293 deaths reported in the latest 24 hours

March 15

Performers wearing traditional guard uniforms and face masks march during a reenactment of opening and closing of the gate at the Sungnyemun Gate in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. South Korea had its deadliest day yet of the pandemic on Tuesday as the country grapples with a record surge in coronavirus infections driven by the fast-moving omicron variant. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

COVID-19 cases more than double in China's growing outbreak

China has reported a more doubling of new COVID-19 cases as it faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic

March 15

A medical worker takes swab samples from a girl for the Covid-19 screening in Yantai city in eastern China's Shandong province Monday, March 14, 2022. China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading "stealth omicron" variant fuels the country's biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago. (Chinatopix via AP)

Lawmakers send Texas-styled ballgame nib to Idaho governor

Legislation aimed at banning abortions in Idaho after six weeks of pregnancy by allowing potential family members to sue a dr. who performs one is heading to the governor

March fourteen

The Idaho House of Representative voted to approve a Texas-styled bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy by allowing potential family members to sue a doctor who performs one, on Monday, March 14, 2022, at the Statehouse in Boise, Idaho. The bill has already passed the Senate and now heads to Republican Gov. Brad Little's desk. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)

Pregnant woman, babe die after Russian bombing in Mariupol

A wounded pregnant woman who was seen being carried on a stretcher from a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, terminal calendar week has died, along with her baby

March 14

A medical worker walks through the hall of a maternity hospital damaged in a shelling attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Associated Press journalists, who have been reporting from inside blockaded Mariupol since early in the war, documented this attack on the hospital and saw the victims and damage firsthand. They shot video and photos of several bloodstained, pregnant mothers fleeing the blown-out maternity ward, medics shouting, children crying. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

China battles multiple outbreaks, driven past stealth omicron

The "stealth omicron" variant is fueling Communist china's biggest COVID-xix outbreak in two years, with 1,337 local cases tallied across the mainland

March 14

Residents line up for COVID test on Monday, March 14, 2022, in Beijing. Chinese authorities reported more than 1,300 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 across dozens of mainland cities Monday as the fast-spreading variant commonly known as "stealth omicron" fuels China's biggest outbreak in two years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

UK to cease all COVID-19 travel rules ahead of Easter interruption

Britain says all remaining coronavirus measures for travelers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement for unvaccinated people exist tested for COVID-19 before and after their arrivals, will end Fri

March fourteen

FILE - A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past a health campaign poster from the One NGO, in an underpass leading to Westminster underground train station, in London, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Scientists are warning the British government not to weaken the country's ability to monitor and track the coronavirus when Prime Minister Boris Johnson ends the requirement for people in England to self-isolate if they contract COVID-19. Johnson will announce details in Parliament on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022 of the government's plan for

second-largest school district in US says it's keeping mask mandate

The county's teachers' unions take been in potent support of mask mandates.

March 14

High school students wear mask outdoors downtown Los Angeles, Feb. 18, 2022.

California aims to limit health care costs with new office

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to create a new land office to keep health care prices in check

March 14

FILE - Registered nurse Sandra Younan sets up a new intravenous line for a patient under her care at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles on March 11, 2021. To keep health care prices in check, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to create the Office of Health Care Affordability. The office would order hospitals, doctor's offices and insurers to keep their cost below a certain level. Anyone breaking the rules could face a hefty fine. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

For kids with COVID-nineteen, everyday life can be a struggle

More than 12.7 million children in the U.S. lone have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began

March 14

FILE - Police officers patrol on the empty Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, on March 17, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron adopted a martial tone, declaring the country "at war," to order the French to stay at home in what would become the country's first, strict lockdown to try to curb the spreading of the virus. The country reported over 130,000 deaths from the virus since the beginning of the pandemic. French President Emmanuel Macron has formally announced that he will seek a second term in April's presidential election. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Turkish medical workers strike for better pay, safer work

Thousands of Turkish doctors and other medical workers began a two-day nationwide strike on Monday to need better protection, improved piece of work weather condition and college pay as Turkey suffers soaring inflation

March fourteen

Obama tests positive for COVID-xix, says he's 'feeling fine'

Onetime President Barack Obama says he tested positive for the coronavirus

March 14

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial service for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the Smith Center in Las Vegas, Jan. 8, 2022. Former President Obama said on Sunday, March 13, 2022 that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, though he's feeling relatively healthy and his wife, Michelle, tested negative. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)

A pregnant woman seen in widely circulated AP images afterward Russian bombing of Ukrainian hospital has died with her baby

A pregnant woman seen in widely circulated AP images afterwards Russian bombing of Ukrainian hospital has died with her baby

March 14

China shuts business eye of Shenzhen to fight virus surge

China shut down its southern business center of Shenzhen, a city of 17.five million

March xiii

A child wearing a face mask walks a dog in Hong Kong, Sunday, March 13, 2022. The territory's leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, warned the peak of the latest surge in coronavirus infections might not have passed yet. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Due west. Virginia Senate blows deadline to pass instruction race pecker

The Republican supermajority in the West Virginia Legislature has failed to pass a controversial neb restricting how race is taught in public schools before a midnight deadline

March xiii

Facing Purdue owners brings hurting, closure for opioid victims

A sense of closure is mixing with acrimony and pain for some of the nearly ii dozen people who told their personal stories to members of the family unit that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

March 12

Dede Yoder poses for a picture with a photo of her son, Chris Yoder, after making a statement during a hearing in New York, Thursday, March 10, 2022. People who lost loved ones or years of their own lives to opioid addiction are getting their first and perhaps only chance to confront members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. Thursday's virtual court hearing is being run by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Facing Purdue owners brings pain, closure for opioid victims

A sense of closure is mixing with acrimony and hurting for some of the nearly two dozen people who told their personal stories to members of the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

March 12

Dede Yoder poses for a picture with a photo of her son, Chris Yoder, after making a statement during a hearing in New York, Thursday, March 10, 2022. People who lost loved ones or years of their own lives to opioid addiction are getting their first and perhaps only chance to confront members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. Thursday's virtual court hearing is being run by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

'Scum of the earth': Drug victims face Purdue Pharma owners

They unleashed their emotions on the family they arraign for the opioid epidemic.

March 12

Cheryl Juaire holds photos of her sons, both of whom died from overdoses, Sean Merrill, left, and Corey Merrill, after making a statement during a hearing in New York, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Victims of opioids and those who have lost loved ones to the addiction crisis are unleashing their emotions on members of the family they blame for fueling the deadly epidemic. Thursday's unusual hearing is being conducted virtually in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. It is giving people the chance to confront members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and tell them about the lasting pain that addiction and overdoses have had in their lives. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

How daylight saving time could impact wellness

The time transition can affect your middle and brain, co-ordinate to the American Heart Association.

March 12

The time transition can affect your heart and brain, according to the American Heart Association.

Usa ends asylum restrictions for children traveling alone

Unaccompanied child migrants trying to enter the United States will no longer be denied a chance to seek asylum under new guidance announced by U.S. health authorities

March 12

FILE - A Cuban woman and her daughter wait in line to be escorted to a Border Patrol van for processing in Yuma, Ariz., Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, hoping to remain in the United States to seek asylum. U.S. authorities have lifted a public health order to expel unaccompanied children at borders without a chance at asylum, while leaving it in place for adults and people traveling in families. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Mainland china tightens controls as more than virus cases reported

Red china has instituted new COVID-19 restrictions that included urging the public not to leave Beijing and closing schools in Shanghai while the leader of Hong Kong warned that its coronavirus outbreak has notwithstanding to reach its meridian

March 12

A worker wearing a protective suit speaks to residents in a neighborhood in Changchun in northeastern China's Jilin Province, Friday, March 11, 2022. China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant. (Chinatopix via AP)

How daylight saving fourth dimension tin negatively impact your health

Here are tips for staying healthy as nosotros turn clocks forward.

March 12

A man is pictured sleeping in this undated stock photo.

Preparing for the 'side by side normal' ii years into the pandemic

ABC News' Terry Moran speaks with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, author of an updated edition of "Which Land Has the World'due south Best Wellness Care?" on preparing for the adjacent phase of the pandemic.

March eleven

VIDEO: Preparing for the 'next normal' 2 years into the pandemic

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