LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County will again require masks be worn indoors in the nation's largest county, even by those vaccinated against the coronavirus, while the University of California system also said Thursday that students, faculty and staff must be inoculated against the ...
CRYSTAL FALLS — Officials with the Crystal Theatre in Crystal Falls said Wednesday they have disinfected all surfaces and taken other steps after learning a person who attended a performance Friday evening later tested positive for COVID-19. In a news release, theater manager Angie Dohl said they have “been given a green light to move forward with scheduled events,” including their Third Thursday performance at 7 p.m. today by classical guitarist Thomas Niebrzydowski and vocal group One Voice. “This seems to be an isolated incident,” Dohl said in the news ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan officials announced the first four $50,000 winners of the state’s $5 million COVID-19 vaccine sweepstakes on Wednesday. The four winners live in New Baltimore, Southfield, Detroit and Wyoming. The state launched the sweepstakes with $5 million in cash and college scholarships, as well as a $2 million jackpot, a $1 million prize and daily drawings of $50,000 through July 30 in an effort to reach a goal of a 70% vaccination rate. As of Monday, 62.4% of state residents ages 16 or older had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, which ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — More than 600,000 Michigan residents who received pandemic-related unemployment aid are being told to update their accounts after the state learned that some reasons for eligibility approved months ago were wrong. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, states had flexibility to interpret federal guidelines, but the U.S. Labor Department subsequently “became more prescriptive,” the Unemployment Insurance Agency said Wednesday. The department will determine if benefits need to be repaid, spokeswoman Lynda Robinson said. “We’re doing everything we ...
Local health officials Tuesday advised of a possible COVID-19 exposure site in Iron County during an event Friday at the Crystal Theatre in Crystal Falls. An individual who later tested positive for the coronavirus was at the theater from 6 to 9 p.m., according to a news release from the ...
The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings. Confirmed infections climbed to an average of ...
