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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=1082 valign=top style='width:811.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><a href="https://www.gemportal.co.zw/"><b><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=1068 height=374 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D6AC4D.A3A86630" alt="cid:image003.jpg@01D6AC4D.A3A86630"></span></b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Zimbabwe COVID19 Update<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>COVID-19 update: As at 02 December 2020, Zimbabwe had 10 243 confirmed cases, including 8 671 recoveries and 277 deaths.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=706 height=939 id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D6C972.CC3B6E70" alt=Image></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Thailand contact traces 700 people after infected nationals entered the country illegally</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand has contact traced 700 people after 10 Thai nationals illegally crossed into the country from Myanmar, according to Thailand's Ministry of Public Health.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Opas Karnkawinpong, Director-General of Thailand's Disease Control Department, said during a news conference that the 10 Thai citizens tested positive for Covid-19 after they went to hospitals and clinics in Thailand following their return.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The 10 individuals entered Thailand between Nov. 24 and 28 through a natural border in Mae Sai district, in the northern Chiang Rai province.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Most of them went out for trips and then returned to their homes before their symptoms showed,” Opas said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nearly 700 people have been exposed to these infected cases at various degrees.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Among them, 175 are considered high-risk as they spent time in close proximity, and in some cases, were not wearing masks. Everyone in the high-risk group has tested negative so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We have tracked 175 people in high-risk groups, after tests were done, the results were negative. However, all of them have to undergo more tests until the incubation period is over,” Opas added.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand’s last locally transmitted coronavirus case was reported in September.</span><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US buys 650,000 more doses of Lilly's monoclonal antibody for Covid-19<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The US federal government has bought 650,000 additional doses of Eli Lilly and Co’s monoclonal antibody treatment for coronavirus, bringing the total US purchase to 950,000 treatment courses. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Lilly’s treatment, an engineered version of a human immune system protein, won emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration last month after clinical trials showed it could help prevent severe disease. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“With Covid-19 cases on the rise, treating people with mild or moderate infections can help prevent hospitalizations, which will reduce that burden on healthcare systems,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dr. Robert Kadlec said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority said that each treatment course was a single dose.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"Under the agreement announced October 28 and to meet Operation Warp Speed goals, the company is in the process of delivering the first 300,000 doses, and on November 10, HHS began allocating these doses to state and territorial health departments which, in turn, are determining which healthcare facilities receive the infusion drug,” the authority said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In a separate statement, Lilly said that the purchase agreement was for $812.5 million worth of doses which would be delivered “through January 31, 2021, with at least 350,000 of the additional doses delivered in December 2020."</span><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Russia reports more than 28,000 Covid-19 cases in new daily high<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Russia reported 28,145 new Covid-19 cases Thursday, the highest number in a single day, according to data from the country’s coronavirus response center.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The total number of infections confirmed in Russia is now at least 2,375,546, with an overall death toll of 41,607.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A CNN investigation previously revealed that official Russian coronavirus death figures may grossly understate the real toll by excluding people who are presumed to have Covid-19 post mortem and even those with pre-existing conditions that proved fatal due to the infection.</span><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US states will make decisions about Covid-19 vaccines based on their own circumstances, former FDA chief says<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>When states begin receiving their share of the limited Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines, perhaps as soon as this month, they’re going to make some decisions about vaccinations based on their own circumstances, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the US Food and Drug Administration, said Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Tuesday to recommend giving the limited number of initial vaccines to healthcare workers and residents in long-term care facilities, but Gottlieb said states still have some leeway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“States are going to do some things that are distinct to their state,” Gottlieb told CNBC.<br>“I’ve talked to a number of governors. You’ll see some states that deploy the vaccine in certain communities that are particularly hard hit where they have epidemics that they feel are under less control ... So, there will be decisions made by some states that are very particular to different states,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>When it comes to distributions to healthcare workers, Gottlieb said the majority will be sent to hospitals, which will have to decide which staff get vaccinated first, “based on their exposure to Covid, their proximity to the virus.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>He said he expects the 3 million residents of long-term care facilities and staff there to get the vaccine quickly, given the high risk that they face.</span><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US reports more than 200,000 new Covid-19 cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>At least 200,070 new coronavirus cases were reported in the United States on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>An additional 3,157 virus-related fatalities -- the highest number in a single day since the pandemic began -- were also reported Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A total of 13,924,956 Covid-19 infections, including 273,835 deaths, have now been confirmed nationwide, according to JHU's tally.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Germany extends coronavirus restrictions until Jan. 10<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Germany has extended restrictive measures designed to curb the spread of coronavirus until Jan. 10, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced late Wednesday following a meeting with the country's state leaders. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"The states will extend their measures from Dec. 20 until Jan. 10," Merkel told reporters at a news conference, adding that another round of consultations would be held on Jan. 4. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"In principle things will remain as they are," she said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Merkel said that infection rates throughout the country remain too high to allow reopening of restaurants, bars and leisure facilities. The nationwide partial lockdown also includes private gatherings to be kept to a minimum of only five people from two households. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Last week Merkel announced that restrictions will be eased over the Christmas period in most parts of Germany to allow for people to meet in groups of up to 10 people, not counting children. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Germany is struggling to contain an ongoing surge in Covid-19 infections.</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> On Wednesday, the country's infectious disease agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), reported 487 deaths due to the virus --- the highest daily death toll since the beginning of the pandemic. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>According to data published by the RKI Thursday morning, 22,046 new coronavirus infections were recorded in the past 24 hours. A total of 479 coronavirus fatalities also occurred in the past day -- the second-highest count since the pandemic began, bringing the total number of deaths to 17,602.</span><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=timealert><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Japan reports highest increase of Covid-19 deaths since early May<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Japan recorded 41 new coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, its highest daily increase of new deaths since May 8, the country’s Health Ministry announced today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The country's death toll now stands at 2,226. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Health Ministry also reported 2,434 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing Japan's nationwide total to 153,539.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Japan reported there were 488 people in intensive care and on respirators on Wednesday, down five from the previous day when it had the highest such number since the pandemic began. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Tokyo reported 500 new cases on Wednesday, bringing the capital's total number of infections to 41,811. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Last Thursday, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga described the next three weeks as an extremely crucial period and asked the public to cooperate with anti-virus measures. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>US reports highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a single day<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The United States reported 3,157 new coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, the highest number in a single day since the pandemic began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The days with the highest number of new deaths according to JHU data are: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dec. 2: 3,157</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>April 15: 2,603<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dec. 1: 2,597<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>April 7: 2,570 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>April 21: 2,542<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Hawaii couple arrested for allegedly traveling to island with child after positive Covid-19 test<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A couple returning home to Hawaii was arrested over the weekend after they allegedly flew on a commercial plane with a child despite testing positive for Covid-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>According to the Kauai Police Department, Wesley Moribe, 41, and Courtney Peterson, 46, of Wailua were charged with second-degree reckless endangering.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Police spokesperson Coco Zickos said Moribe and Peterson boarded a United Airlines flight out of San Francisco on Sunday despite knowing they both had tested positive for the coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A 4-year-old child traveled with them. Zickos said the child was released to the care of a family member following the adults’ arrests. The police department is not saying how the child is related to the suspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Following their arrests at the Lihue Airport, Moribe and Peterson were each released on $1,000 bail, said Zickos. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We continue to request visitors and residents alike to follow the Governor’s Emergency Rules and take all necessary precautions to prevent the spread of Covid-19,” Kauai Police Chief Todd Raybuck said in a news release.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>CNN was not able to find contact information nor an attorney listed for the couple Wednesday evening.</span><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Former US presidents volunteer to take coronavirus vaccine publicly to prove it's safe<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Three former United States presidents -- Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton -- are volunteering to receive their Covid-19 vaccines on camera in order to promote public confidence in the medication's safety.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The three former presidents hope an awareness campaign to promote confidence in the vaccine's safety and effectiveness would be a powerful message as American public health officials try to convince the public to get vaccinated once the US Food and Drug Administration authorizes one. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Freddy Ford, Bush's chief of staff, told CNN that the 43rd president had reached out to Dr. Anthony Fauci -- the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -- and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, to see how he could help promote the vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"A few weeks ago President Bush asked me to let Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx know that, when the time is right, he wants to do what he can to help encourage his fellow citizens to get vaccinated," Ford told CNN. "First, the vaccines need to be deemed safe and administered to the priority populations. Then, President Bush will get in line for his, and will gladly do so on camera."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Clinton's press secretary told CNN on Wednesday that he too would be willing to take the vaccine in a public setting in order to promote it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"President Clinton will definitely take a vaccine as soon as available to him, based on the priorities determined by public health officials. And he will do it in a public setting if it will help urge all Americans to do the same," Angel Urena said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It has been previously reported that Obama said in an interview with SiriusXM host Joe Madison, scheduled to air Thursday, that if Fauci said a coronavirus vaccine is safe, he believes him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Half a million South Korean students sit a college entrance exam despite rising Covid cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Half a million students will sit South Korea's notoriously difficult National College Entrance Exam on Thursday, a marathon day of tests that is the country's answer to the SATs and can determine a teenager's future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The tests are so significant that, in normal years, the country rolls out extreme measures to support students -- office hours are changed to clear roads to avoid students getting stuck in traffic and flights are rescheduled to prevent the sound of plane engines disrupting the English listening test.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But this year, even greater planning has been required, as South Korea attempts to hold the exams while keeping teenagers safe from coronavirus. Students will have their temperature checked before entering the testing facilities and will need to wear masks throughout the exam.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Arrangements were even made for 3,775 students to take the tests from quarantine,</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> and for the 35 students who tested positive for Covid-19 as of Tuesday to sit the exam from a hospital bed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The exams help decide whether students will make it into the most prestigious colleges and what career path they can take -- some options, such as medicine, will be shut off to students who don't get a high-enough score.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"Every citizen understands the exam to be a major national event," Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae told CNN in an exclusive interview ahead of the test.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>LA is on track to run out of hospital beds by Christmas. The mayor has urged residents to "cancel everything"<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Los Angeles will run out of hospital beds by Christmas if the coronavirus continues to spread at its current, unprecedented rate, Mayor Eric Garcetti warned in a news conference Wednesday, calling on residents to “hunker down” and “cancel everything” to help stop the spread of the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The public health condition of our city is as dire as it was in March in the earliest days of this pandemic,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The number of daily coronavirus infections in Los Angeles have tripled since early November. Hospitalizations have more than tripled as well and are at a new peak, according to Garcetti.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On Tuesday, the county reported its highest number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic. The average daily cases have increased by 225% since early November, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Garcetti urged residents to stay home as much as possible as the “choices between us are stark, between health and sickness, care and apathy, life and death.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“It’s time to hunker down. It’s time to cancel everything. If it isn’t essential, don’t do it,” Garcetti said. “Don’t meet up with others outside your household, don’t host that gathering, don’t attend a gathering.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>To date, Los Angeles County has confirmed a total of 414,185 coronavirus cases and 7,740 deaths. </span><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>UK didn't scrutinize Pfizer coronavirus vaccine trial data as carefully as US FDA is, Fauci says<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>British health regulators who authorized Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday did not scrutinize the trial data as carefully as the US Food and Drug Administration is doing in its review, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, claimed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The way the FDA is, our FDA is doing it, is the correct way,” Fauci said in an interview on Fox News.<br>“We really scrutinize the data very carefully to guarantee to the American public that this is a safe and efficacious vaccine,” he said.<br>“I think if we did any less, we would add to the already existing hesitancy on the part of many people to take the vaccine because they're concerned about safety or they're concerned that we went too quickly."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Fauci said it’s important that Americans feel good about a potential Covid-19 vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“So, it's almost a damned if you do and you're damned if you don't, because if you go quickly and you do it superficially, people are not going to want to get vaccinated,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We have the gold standard of a regulatory approach with the FDA. The UK did not do it as carefully and they got a couple of days ahead,” he said. “I don't think that makes much difference. We'll be there. We'll be there very soon.”</span><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US reports highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a single day<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The United States has reported a record-high number of new Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>So far on Wednesday, 2,658 Covid-19 deaths have been reported, according to JHU. The US is currently averaging 1,531 new deaths per day, the university's data shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>According to JHU data, the days with the highest number of new deaths are: </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dec. 2: 2,658<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>April 15: 2,603<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dec. 1: 2,597<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>April 7: 2,570 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>April 21: 2,542 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Note: This is an ongoing tally and today's final numbers will not be available until overnight tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hospitals stretched beyond "reasonable limit" as number of Covid-19 patients reaches 100,000<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>While Americans are eagerly awaiting coronavirus vaccines to be authorized, doctors and nurses across the US are facing a difficult truth as hospitals try to find creative ways to handle the surging number of patients that exceeds 100,000 nationwide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>One county official in Wisconsin told CNN, "Our hospital ICUs and emergency rooms remain stretched beyond any reasonable limit and our healthcare workers as well as our patients need our help."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>And the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that these next three months will be "the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>More than 100,200 patients were in US hospitals Wednesday -- the most counted during the pandemic, according to the COVID Tracking Project.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>And there was more sad news as more than 2,650 deaths were reported Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University, another national high during the health crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>After they are authorized by the federal government, coronavirus vaccines should help blunt the pandemic, but experts think it won't be until spring before a lot of Americans can get them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>US surpasses 100,000 Covid-19 hospitalizations<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The United States has surpassed 100,000 current Covid-19 hospitalizations, setting a new record high since the pandemic began, according to the Covid Tracking Project (CTP). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On Wednesday, at least 100,226 people were hospitalized with Covid-19, according to CTP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Why was the UK first to authorize a coronavirus vaccine?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The UK became the first Western country to authorize a Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday, marking a pivotal moment in the global fight against coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been granted emergency authorization by British regulators, and the first doses are expected to be rolled out from early next week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Britain has been one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, with the highest death toll in Europe, and its government has been heavily criticized for its handling of the crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But it has now leapfrogged both the European Union and the United States with this announcement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Why was the UK first? </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The vaccine was granted emergency authorization in the UK by its independent regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which has played a crucial part in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi 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