United States Archives

12 July 2021

Delta Variant Now Dominant In The US

New data by researchers at Georgetown University also shows clusters of unvaccinated people, mostly in the southern parts of the US, that are vulnerable to surges in Covid-19 cases and can turn into breeding grounds for even more deadly Covid-19 variants.

28 April 2021

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US CDC Lifts Outdoor Mask Mandate For Fully Vaccinated People

People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, however, are still recommended to wear a face mask in indoor public settings, or when gathering indoors with unvaccinated people from more than one other household.

19 March 2021

World

Biden Says 100 Million US Vaccines Target Will Be Met This Week

Despite initial scepticism about the goal of getting out a million vaccines a day, health workers are now injecting between two and three million shots daily.

11 March 2021

World

Texas Reopens ‘100%’ As US Vaccination Drive Gains Pace

The Covid-19 infection rate has been plateauing since the last week of February at around 60,000 new cases per day.

9 March 2021

World

US Daily Virus Toll Below 1,000 For First Time In Months

The daily US death toll has not been below the thousand mark since November 29, when 822 people died in a 24-hour period.

9 March 2021

World

Fully-Vaccinated People Can Gather Without Masks: CDC

People are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose in a two-dose series, or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine.

23 February 2021

World

Why The US Has The Highest Covid-19 Death Toll

Why does the world's leading power have the highest death toll and what lessons are American health specialists learning from the past year?

28 August 2020

World

Covid-19 Deaths To Cross 317,000 In US By Dec 1: IHME

The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) reflects an increase of about 8,000 deaths from its previous forecast.