Category Archives: Health
Quebec justified in expanding vaccine passport to hospital visits, experts say
MONTREAL — Quebec's decision to expand its vaccine passport system to cover people visiting patients in hospital drew support from ethics and legal experts Wednesday. "If you choose not to get vaccinated, and your loved ones need you, then make a
Ontario universities admonish students for massive parties as schools reopen
As Ontario college and university students head to campus during a fourth wave of COVID-19, their schools, public health units, cities and police services are grappling with how to keep massive parties at bay. In-person classes are resuming this year a...
Moroccans elect new leaders in shadow of virus
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccans voted Wednesday for a new parliament and local leaders in elections that have been reshaped by the pandemic, and whose outcome is hard to predict as opinion polls were not allowed.
2 Australian ministers begin 4-nation visit ending in US
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s foreign and defense ministers are visiting Indonesia, India, South Korea and the United States to bolster economic and security relationships within the Asia-Pacific region, where tensions are rising with China. ...
Candidate in Japan race calls for new capitalism, recovery
TOKYO (AP) — One of the main candidates to be Japan's next prime minister said Wednesday the country needs a new type of capitalism to address income and social gaps caused by the pandemic.
Bulgaria, EU’s least vaccinated nation, faces deadly surge
VELIKO TARNOVO, Bulgaria (AP) — Standing outside the rundown public hospital in Bulgaria's northern town of Veliko Tarnovo, the vaccination unit's chief nurse voices a sad reality about her fellow citizens: “They don’t believe in vaccines.”
Texas GOP bets on hard right turn amid changing demographics
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans in America's largest conservative state for years racked up victories under the slogan “Keep Texas Red,” a pledge to quash a coming blue wave that Democrats argued was inevitable given shifting demographics.
New Mexico plots greater spending, from tuition to Medicaid
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An expansion of nonmerit scholarships to college and greater spending to safeguard abandoned oil wells in New Mexico are among the governor's new spending priorities, amid a windfall in state income linked to federal pandemic
Planned ban over abortion law could cost Texas $7M a year
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The city of Portland, Oregon’s plan to boycott Texas goods and services over its new abortion law could cost Texas companies millions of dollars a year, officials said Tuesday.
California moves to outlaw ‘stealthing,’ or removing condom
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers moved to make the state the first to outlaw “stealthing,” which is removing a condom without permission during intercourse.
