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Up to 65% of Africans have had COVID, far more than thought 04/07/2022 01:37pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The World Health Organization said that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times more than those reported. In a new analysis released Thursday, the U.N. health agency reviewed 1 European Central Bank head says she's positive for COVID-19 04/07/2022 12:49pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde tweeted Thursday that she tested positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms but will continue working from home. “I am vaccinated and boosted, and my symptoms are thankfully reasonably mild,” Lagarde, 66, wrote on Tw DC mayor tests positive for COVID-19, reports mild symptoms 04/07/2022 11:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday that she tested positive for COVID-19 and would “work at home while following isolation protocols.” In a series of messages posted to Twitter, Bowser said she took an at-home test Wednesday after developing “cold-like” sym Cyprus to ease COVID measures as summer tourist season nears 04/07/2022 09:39am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is moving to ease COVID-19 restrictions as the key summer tourist season approaches, abolishing the outdoor facemask mandate and the obligation to show a recovery or inoculation certificate for work and shopping. Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said Thursday tha Shanghai wrestles with food shortages under virus shutdown 04/07/2022 09:02am • BEIJING (AP) — Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes, fueling frustration as the government tries to contain a spreading outbreak. People in China's business capital c German lawmakers reject mandatory COVID shots for over 60s 04/07/2022 08:27am • BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Thursday rejected a bill requiring all people 60 and over in the country to be vaccinated against coronavirus — a compromise solution the government had hoped would get a parliamentary majority. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his health minister originally called fo Dolphins' playful social habits form bonds, but spread virus 04/07/2022 08:05am • REEDVILLE, Va. (AP) — Three young male dolphins simultaneously break the water’s surface to breathe — first exhaling, then inhaling — before slipping back under the waves of the Chesapeake Bay. “A perfect sync,” said Janet Mann, a dolphin researcher watching from a small skiff. Synchron Johns Hopkins, Georgetown universities reinstate COVID-19 measures, mask mandates 04/07/2022 04:20am • Two universities in the D.C. region said on Wednesday that they will be bringing back a temporary mask mandate following an increase in coronavirus cases among students. Georgetown University in D.C. and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore will add additional COVID-19 mitigation measures to hel COVID spending bill stalls in Senate as GOP, Dems stalemate 04/07/2022 12:22am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate and seemed all but certainly sidetracked for weeks, victim of a campaign-season fight over the incendiary issue of immigration. There was abundant finger-pointing Wednesday Garland, Raimondo test positive for COVID-19 04/06/2022 08:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Garland is the second Cabinet official to announce a positive test result on Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also teste Naturopathic doctor admits selling fake COVID vaccine cards 04/06/2022 07:03pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A naturopathic doctor in Northern California on Wednesday pleaded guilty to selling fake COVID-19 immunization treatments and hundreds of fraudulent vaccination cards that made it seem like customers received Moderna vaccines, federal prosecutors said. Juli A. Mazi, 41, of Nap COVID spending bill stalls in Senate as GOP, Dems stalemate 04/06/2022 05:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses stalled in the Senate Wednesday and seemed all but certainly sidetracked for weeks, victim of a campaign-season fight over the incendiary issue of immigration. There was abundant finger-pointing but Montgomery Co. poised to name new health officer with duties 'beyond COVID' 04/06/2022 04:45pm • After two previous candidates backed out, officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, say they're on their way to having a top doctor once again -- after going months without one during the height of the omicron surge. The county's pick for health officer has been sent to the Maryland Department of Zoos hiding birds as avian flu spreads in North America 04/06/2022 02:21pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza. Penguins may be the only birds visitors to many zoos can see right now, because they already AP Was There: NBA suspends season over coronavirus pandemic 04/06/2022 10:23am • MIAMI (AP) — (2010s) The NBA suspends the season “until further notice” after Rudy Goebert of the Utah Jazz tests positive for the coronavirus. The move comes hours after the majority of the league’s owners were leaning toward playing games without fans in arenas. The stoppage is expected to