HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Vietnam closed its third-largest city on Tuesday for two weeks after 22 hospital-linked COVID-19 cases were found, the government said. The new cases in the central city of Da Nang are the first confirmed local transmission of the virus in the country in more than three …
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ALBANY – Governor Andrew Cuomo is expanding his list of quarantined coronavirus 14-day travel notices to 34 states plus Puerto Rico, he said Tuesday. “Our job is to make sure that we are doing everything possible to control COVID, what we are doing, [and to] anticipate possible future problems that …
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(CNN) – While popular destinations are slowly reopening and tourism is starting to increase in places, the impact of the pandemic on the industry has been devastating. Many countries that rely heavily on tourism revenue lost one of their main sources of wealth almost overnight in March, but which ones …
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Reykjavik, Iceland (CNN) – It was a casual hug from an old friend, and yet it turned out to be very traumatic. I had returned to my native Iceland the day before and now armed with a negative Covid-19 test from the airport, here I was in a bustling café …
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(CNN) – Islam’s largest annual pilgrimage began on Tuesday with only a small fraction of its regular number of worshipers, amid concerns about the coronavirus. Only around 1,000 pilgrims will attend Hajj this year due to new crowd control restrictions set by Saudi Arabia. Sacred places in the cities of …
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