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New Zealand hands out extra cash to fight 'inflation storm' 05/19/2022 03:13am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government said Thursday it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to more than 2 million lower-income adults to help them navigate what it describes as “the peak of the global inflation storm.” The payments are part of a package of new measur Portugal finds 5 monkeypox cases in men as outbreak spreads 05/18/2022 07:11pm • LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese health authorities on Wednesday confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, and Britain announced two more new cases, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa. Portugal's General Directorate for Health said that it was a Francona back managing Guardians following COVID-19 outbreak 05/18/2022 06:58pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians manager Terry Francona missed so much time over the past two seasons that even a four-game absence was difficult. “This was forced retirement,” he said. “It wasn’t very fun.” Francona and two of his coaches cleared health and safety protocols and returned to th A third of US should be considering masks, officials say 05/18/2022 05:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States — and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizat Where are we now? Navigating COVID in our Community 05/18/2022 05:07pm • This content is provided by D.C. Health. The pandemic we have been experiencing over the last few years has begun to evolve in ways that we have all noticed. Communities are now considering how best to navigate life with endemic COVID-19. More tools than ever before are available to help u US health secretary tests positive for COVID on Germany trip 05/18/2022 04:34pm • President Joe Biden’s top health official tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the latest member of his Cabinet to be infected with the virus. U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra tested positive while visiting Berlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services said. Becer Public warned about potential measles exposure in Northern Virginia 05/18/2022 04:20pm • Health officials in Northern Virginia are warning the public about some potential exposures to measles. The case involves an unvaccinated child who was infected during a trip out of the country. The child's case was confirmed on Tuesday, according to Dr. David Goodfriend, director of the Loudoun US: N. Korea may conduct missile test as Biden visits Asia 05/18/2022 03:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence shows that it's a “genuine possibility” that North Korea will conduct another ballistic missile test or nuclear test around President Joe Biden's visit to South Korea and Japan that begins later this week, according to the White House. White House national s Eric Clapton cancels shows after testing positive for COVID 05/18/2022 10:10am • Eric Clapton, a critic of coronavirus vaccines and pandemic restrictions, has tested positive for COVID-19 and canceled two upcoming European gigs. Clapton’s upcoming shows in Zurich on Tuesday and Milan on Wednesday will be rescheduled, he announced on his Facebook page and official online sit Mozambique declares polio outbreak linked to Pakistan 05/18/2022 09:06am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health authorities in Mozambique declared a polio outbreak Wednesday after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province had been paralyzed by the disease. The case in Mozambique is the second imported case of polio in southern Africa this year, follo North Korea boasts recovery as WHO worries over missing data 05/18/2022 05:56am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday added hundreds of thousands of infections to its growing pandemic caseload but also said that a million people have already recovered from suspected COVID-19 just a week after disclosing an outbreak, a public health crisis it appears to be trying N. Korea's Kim faces 'huge dilemma' on aid as virus surges 05/17/2022 09:07pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — During more than a decade as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un has made “self-reliance” his governing lynchpin, shunning international help and striving instead for domestic strategies to fix his battered economy. But as an illness suspected to be COVID-19 sickens h WHO: Omicron makes China's 'zero-COVID' policy unsustainable 05/17/2022 08:52pm • GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it’s up to every country to decide what policy to pursue. At a media briefing on Tuesday Montgomery Co. recommends masks again with COVID surge 'lasting longer than expected' 05/17/2022 03:35pm • Residents in Montgomery County, Maryland, are being urged to wear masks when indoors, to get tested for COVID-19 when returning from gatherings or travel and to make sure they're up to date on their vaccinations, including booster shots. "Our current surge in cases is lasting longer than expected FDA clears COVID booster shot for healthy kids ages 5 to 11 05/17/2022 11:40am • U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds, hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward. Everyone 12 and older already was supposed to get one booster dose for the best protection against the newes