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Miami (AFP) - Fifty-five people have tested positive for Covid-19 aboard a Royal Caribbean International cruise ship that set sail Saturday from the southeastern US state of Florida, the company said. The infections on the "Odyssey of the Seas" involved passengers and crew members, even though 95 percent of the people on board were vaccinated against the coronavirus, Royal Caribbean said late Wednesday. Out of an abundance of caution the ship did not dock at the Caribbean islands of Curacao and Aruba, the last scheduled stops on its eight-day voyage, so it will remain at sea until it returns t...
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Miami (AFP) - US parents are debating vaccinating their children against Covid-19 after the recent authorization of a shot for young kids paved the way for more immunizations in the country where vaccine hesitancy remains widespread. The authorization last Friday by the US Food and Drug Administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for kids aged five to 11 paves the way for the innoculation of 28 million children in the United States. The rollout could begin as early as this week, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expected to give the green light after a panel convenes Tuesda...
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Miami (AFP) - The band played, cheerleaders performed a routine and everyone wore masks as one Miami high school joined others in reopening Monday amid a surge in the coronavirus pandemic. The mask issue -- whether students and staff should be ordered to wear them -- has triggered a bitter dispute between Florida's Republican governor and school officials in the Sunshine State. Barbara Goleman Senior High School in Miami-Dade County, the fourth largest school district in the United States, welcomed students back after a year of remote learning -- the norm across America because of the virus. B...
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Miami Beach (United States) (AFP) - A long line of people snaked across the sand of Miami Beach, Florida, as dozens of travelers from Latin America waited their turn at a pop-up coronavirus vaccination booth. Sweating under the Sunday afternoon sun, visitors checked into an online system -- no proof of residence required -- and soon after received a free, single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine and a vaccination card. People had come from all over Latin America -- Ecuador, El Salvador, Venezuela -- where the vaccine rollout has been slow and hampered by supply shortages. "In my country, (Covid-1...
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Miami Beach (United States) (AFP) - The US city of Miami Beach, overrun by crowds of spring break tourists throwing Covid caution to the wind, has extended a state of emergency to stem the chaos -- drawing accusations of unfairly tough tactics against mostly Black revelers. Video and photos on social media show half-naked women twerking on the roofs of cars, men offering them wads of bills and a crowd of tourists huddled side by side, dancing and passing bottles from hand to hand -- plus brawls, gunshots fired in the air and stand-offs with police. "A lot of times when spring breakers come, w...
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Miami Beach (United States) (AFP) - The US city of Miami Beach, overrun by crowds of excited spring break tourists, has extended its state of emergency as it struggles to contain the chaos amid the coronavirus pandemic, with hundreds of arrests. Commissioners on Sunday authorized the city manager Raul Aguila to keep the emergency in place until April 13, when the annual university vacation period that draws thousands of students to the small island off Miami in south Florida ends. A city spokeswoman told AFP on Monday that the extension will come in one week increments. Every year the crowds...
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New York (AFP) - New York's daily rate of positive coronavirus tests climbed to 3.25 percent over the last 24 hours, with a sharp increase in cases among Orthodox Jewish communities, authorities said Tuesday.The elevated rate, which was at 1.93 percent just the day before, marks a worrisome step for a city that has made drastic progress in fighting the coronavirus.New York City, where more than 23,800 people have died of coronavirus, became the global epicenter of the pandemic in spring but has recently touted some of the lowest test positivity rates and infection rates among major US cities."...
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