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DC ends COVID-19 contact tracing unit 07/01/2022 11:44am • More than two years after launching the COVID-19 contact trace force to help identify people potentially exposed to the coronavirus and slow the spread of disease, the District says it's winding down operations. The city's contact tracing team officially closed shop Thursday, according to a state COVID cases up by more than 30% in Britain last week 07/01/2022 08:33am • LONDON (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases across Britain has surged by more than 30% in the last week, new data showed Friday, with cases largely driven by the super infectious omicron variants. Data released by Britain's Office for National Statistics showed that more than 3 million pe French airport workers strike for higher pay amid inflation 07/01/2022 06:54am • PARIS (AP) — Flights from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and other French airports faced disruptions Friday as airport workers held a strike to demand salary hikes to keep up with inflation and an urgent hiring push to deal with resurgent travel demand. The labor action is the latest trouble t N. Korea suggests balloons flown from South brought COVID-19 07/01/2022 02:04am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea suggested Friday its COVID-19 outbreak began in people who had contact with balloons flown from South Korea — a highly questionable claim that appeared to be an attempt to hold its rival responsible amid increasing tensions over its nuclear program. Activist Towns agrees with Timberwolves on $224 million extension 07/01/2022 12:47am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns is under contract for six more years, after agreeing to an extension Friday to remain with the Minnesota Timberwolves. It's a huge commitment from the Timberwolves, and one they made as quickly as they possibly could: Starting in 2024-25, Towns will make $224 Asian shares mostly lower after pessimistic 'tankan' survey 06/30/2022 11:50pm • TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks were mostly lower on Friday, echoing a decline on Wall Street, after a quarterly report by Japan’s central bank rekindled worries about the world’s third largest economy. Recent data suggest global growth is slowing as countries grapple with renewed waves of coro Commission report blasts decision to cull all Denmark's mink 06/30/2022 11:31am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish Parliament-appointed commission has harshly criticized the country's government for its decision to cull millions of healthy mink at the height of the coronavirus pandemic to protect humans from a mutation of the virus. The 2020 decision to wipe out Denmark's en COVID reopening, TJ admissions: Outgoing Fairfax Co. superintendent reflects on great debates that marked his tenure 06/30/2022 05:30am • Weeks before talk of masks and stay-at-home orders, Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Brabrand suspected what at the time was called the novel coronavirus had the potential to severely disrupt Virginia's largest school system. In Jan. 2020, a delegation from COVID restrictions ease in Shanghai as case numbers drop 06/30/2022 05:21am • BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai is moving to allow in-person dining and reopening its Disney Resort theme park as domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19 in China’s largest city remain at zero following a more than two-month lockdown. Chinese officials hail their hardline “zero-COVID” policy for China's factory activity improves after Shanghai reopens 06/30/2022 01:44am • BEIJING (AP) — China's manufacturing activity improved in June after anti-virus controls that shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers were eased, a survey showed Thursday. The monthly purchasing managers’ index released by the national statistics bureau and an industry group rose to 50.2 Asia stocks mixed after Wall St down, China manufacturing up 06/29/2022 11:48pm • BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after the U.S. economy contracted and China reported stronger factory activity. Shanghai and Hong Kong gained, while Tokyo and Seoul declined. Oil prices advanced. Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index edged down 0.1% on Wednesday after da Additional 'presumed cases' of monkeypox identified in parts of Virginia 06/29/2022 10:46pm • The Virginia Department of Health identified five more cases of presumed monkeypox in the state. This brings the total number of cases to eight since May 2022. Several countries, including the U.S., are reporting cases of the virus. As of Wednesday, the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prev US buys 105 million COVID vaccine doses for fall campaign 06/29/2022 06:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials said Wednesday they have agreed to purchase another 105 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in anticipation of a fall booster campaign. The $3.2 billion deal announced by the Biden administration comes as federal scientists consider how to update the Essence Fest is back in New Orleans after two-year hiatus 06/29/2022 01:25pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Black culture, in all its glory, will be on display over the 4th of July holiday weekend in New Orleans as thousands converge on the city for the in-person return of the Essence Festival of Culture. The multiday event begins with a Thursday performance by comedian Kevin Hart in A viral reprise: When COVID-19 strikes again and again 06/29/2022 11:50am • For New York musician Erica Mancini, COVID-19 made repeat performances. March 2020. Last December. And again this May. “I’m bummed to know that I might forever just get infected,” said the 31-year-old singer, who is vaccinated and boosted. “I don’t want to be getting sick every month or e