COVID-19

Beer giant Budweiser is the latest big advertiser to take a pass on buying ad time during this year’s Super Bowl.

The State of California will reportedly lift stay-at-home orders that applied to most counties in the state on Monday, as a surge in coronavirus cases that had limited hospital capacity in many regions has begun to subside.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed he tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). He said he will take a step back from his usual duties. The announcement comes at a time when Mexico is undergoing an alarming spike in infections and fatalities.

British businesses are locked out of the government’s £4.6 billion emergency coronavirus grant scheme because it has signed up to the European Commission’s “state-aid temporary framework”, according to reports.

The NBA normally encourages postgame exchanges of respect and appreciation between opponents after a hard-fought game, but not anymore.

(AP) — France’s government may impose a third lockdown in the coming days if an existing 12-hour-a-day curfew doesn´t significantly slow virus infections.

LONDON (AP) — Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen almost 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic approaches 100,000.

In what has been described as “emotionally manipulative propaganda”, the British government has released a high-production lockdown ad campaign, attempt to guilt the public into obeying the country’s lockdown restrictions.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has temporarily suspended all flights from the United Arab Emirates for five days after suspicion arose that the coronavirus tests that can be obtained before leaving Dubai are not reliable, authorities announced Friday.

LONDON (AP) – A major British doctors’ group says the UK government should “urgently review” its decision to give people a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine up to 12 weeks after the first, rather than the shorter gap recommended by the manufacturer and the World Health Organization.

Lockdown sceptic Desmond Swayne MP predicted that unless the government devises an exit strategy for coronavirus restrictions, Britons will “rise up” and demand the laws be changed.

Britain’s chancellor wants to “wean us off the magic money tree” after nearly a year of unprecedented spending in response to the coronavirus lockdown, a policy which saw government borrowing rise by a near-record £34 billion in December alone.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) “did the wrong thing” with nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic and “The idiot in Florida” handled nursing homes better. “Good Luck

The State of California became the worst of the 50 states in distributing its share of coronavirus vaccines on Thursday, as other states picked up their pace.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has received the COVID-19 vaccine and is urging fans to sign up up for the injection if they are eligible. Quoting himself from the Terminator movies, he said in an Instagram post: “Come with me if you want to live!”

Of the 22,000 fans that will be permitted to attend this year’s Super Bowl, 7,500 of them will be vaccinated health care workers who got their tickets for free.

A leading British health expert has said that grandparents should refrain from hugging their grandchildren and families even after they have received the coronavirus vaccine.

President Joe Biden, along with first lady Jill Biden, joined members of their family at the Lincoln Memorial on the night of Inauguration Day, where they took a photo as a group with masks, and one without.

President Joe Biden is prioritizing illegal aliens and foreigners above Americans for available jobs, said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

During an interview with Surgeon General nominee Dr. Vivek Murthy on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” host Wolf Blitzer said it is “encouraging” that the Biden administration, is “wearing masks. They’re showing the American public you’ve got to do this.”

During an event on Thursday, President Joe Biden dismissed a reporter’s question on whether his goal of 100 million coronavirus vaccines in 100 days is a high enough bar because 1 million vaccines per day is basically where the U.S. already is by stating that when he announced the goal, “you all said it’s not possible. Come on, give me a break, man.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin and three other Washington Capitals players were added to the NHL’s COVID-19 list Wednesday and the team was fined $100,000 by the league for violating coronavirus protocols, including a gathering in a hotel room.

An EU Commissioner has claimed that vaccine passports for the Chinese coronavirus are set to be “recognised” by the European Union in a supposed push to open up travel within the bloc.

The Biden administration has installed “plexiglass germ shields” at desks throughout the White House’s West Wing, according to Bloomberg News’s Jennifer Jacobs, who shared photos of the new office accessories via social media on Wednesday.

Marc Morano, founder of Climate Depot and author of the forthcoming Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think, warned “climate change” would be used as a pretext for lockdowns as is being done with coronavirus.

The Vatican announced Wednesday that any journalist wishing to travel aboard the papal flight to Iraq in March must first receive the coronavirus vaccine.

Nearly half of Britons are in favour of surveillance on people’s phones to enforce lockdown measures during a pandemic, a poll has found.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly closed its investigation into Sen. Richard Burr’s (R-SC) sale of upwards of $1.72 million in stock ahead of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Guatemalan officials report that some of the migrants in this weekend’s caravan carried fake COVID-19 test results. Others actually tested positive for the potentially deadly virus.

A spokeswoman for President-elect Joe Biden said that the incoming administration will not lift the travel ban on the UK, Europe, and Brazil.