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Happiness Report: World shows resilience in face of COVID19 03/19/2021 12:01pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) — The coronavirus brought a year of fear and anxiety, loneliness and lockdown, and illness and death, but an annual report on happiness around the world released Friday suggests the pandemic has not crushed people's spirits. The editors of the 2021 World Happiness Report found that Flowers bloom and vaccines increase, but return to DC normal will take time 03/13/2021 12:35pm • As the weather warms and the promise of spring's renewal is bolstered by increased optimism about the availability of COVID-19 vaccines, several of the symbolic centers of "life in D.C." won't return to pre-pandemic normal for the foreseeable future. Unless something dramatic changes, the April 1 Maryland continues decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations 03/12/2021 12:18pm • The decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maryland is continuing, Gov. Larry Hogan said Friday. The number of people in Maryland's COVID-19 intensive care wards has dropped below 200 for the first time since last Nov. 12, Hogan's office said in a statement. The case rate and positivity rate Una mujer muere en México después de ser vacunada contra el covid-19; López-Gatell informa que el país continuará con la vacunación 03/12/2021 02:51am • (CNN) — México continuará usando la vacuna contra el coronavirus de AstraZeneca, entre otras, informó el jueves por la noche el subsecretario de Salud, Hugo López-Gatell.El anuncio se produjo después de que una mujer de 75 años falleciera en el estado de Hidalgo una hora después de recibir Md. comptroller extends deadline for state tax filing 03/11/2021 05:16pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) on Thursday announced that he is extending the state income tax filing deadline by three months A look back at COVID-19's impact on Montgomery Co. -- and a look ahead 03/05/2021 01:26pm • In any other year, Montgomery County's elected officials and civic leaders would be crowding into an auditorium to hear the county executive deliver a  State of the County address. But not this year. Instead, County Executive Marc Elrich delivered a taped message seated behind a desk, and put Viajeros de Colombia y Perú deberán hacer cuarentena de 10 días al llegar a España 03/03/2021 06:30am • (CNN Español) — Los viajeros procedentes de Colombia y Perú deberán cumplir una cuarentena obligatoria de 10 días al llegar a España «para frenar la propagación de las nuevas variantes de covid-19».Así lo informó este miércoles el Ministerio de Sanidad de España.El Gobierno español am Nearly 200 midshipmen moved to hotels as Naval Academy tries to curb COVID-19 spread 03/03/2021 05:45am • Nearly 200 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen are now being housed in hotels as the academy tries to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 within the brigade at the academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The academy moved an additional 98 midshipmen to the Graduate Hotel on West Street in downtown Annapolis Tuesda Professor in Michigan fired after racist, homophobic tweets 02/28/2021 02:58pm • BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A science professor at a university in central Michigan who claimed sinister forces were targeting him and breaking into his home has been fired months after using racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs on Twitter. Thomas Brennan announced in a Twitter posting Saturday World Bank threatens to suspend vaccine funding to Lebanon 02/23/2021 01:20pm • BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank threatened Tuesday to suspend financing for coronavirus vaccines in Lebanon as it investigated suspected favoritism amid accusations that lawmakers were inoculated in parliament without prior approval. A top Lebanese official supervising the vaccine rollout called it â Preguntas de la audiencia sobre el coronavirus: ¿Existen remedios caseros para elevar las defensas contra el covid-19? 02/19/2021 07:31pm • (CNN Español) – El doctor Elmer Huerta responde las preguntas de nuestra audiencia sobre el coronavirus. Entre ellas, si existen o no remedios caseros para elevar las defensas y las secuelas del virus. También, resolvemos dudas sobre las vacunas y tratamiento de la enfermedad.Puedes escuchar est Puerto Rico: así se celebró el Miércoles de Ceniza en una parroquia en plena pandemia 02/19/2021 01:04pm • (CNN Español) — A raíz de la pandemia del covid-19, el rito católico del Miércoles de Ceniza, que marca el inicio de la Cuaresma, se ha modificado. Las autoridades de la Iglesia Católica informaron de nuevas guías para llevar a cabo este ritual. Tradicionalmente, el sacerdote imponía ceniza Inside United Airlines' in-airport coronavirus testing center 02/16/2021 07:13am • United Airlines is now the first U.S. airline to offer passengers access to in-airport coronavirus testing. The rollout is a streamlined way for passengers to book a ticket, schedule a test and upload the results on the company's app, in what travel experts say could be the "new normal" of trave Preguntas de la audiencia sobre el coronavirus: ¿Se puede reemplazar el alcohol en gel con colonia o perfume? 02/12/2021 05:21pm • (CNN Español) – El coronavirus continúa generando preguntas en nuestra audiencia. En este episodio, el doctor Elmer Huerta responde las dudas de nuestros usuarios sobre el contagio de covid-19, sobre las vacunas y sobre si podemos reemplazar el alcohol en gel con, por ejemplo, colonia o perfume. WHO team visits 2nd Wuhan hospital in virus investigation 01/30/2021 05:20am • WUHAN, China (AP) — Members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work Saturday. Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital was one of the first in the Chinese city