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A new app launched by the Washington State Department of Health. It was developed in conjunction with the University of Washington. The app seeks to notify users if they have been exposed to COVID-19. It is a voluntary, data-secure app and is seen as a complementary tool for testing and contact tracing. The app launched Monday as COVID-19 cases remained high in Washington state. State hospitals are nearly running out of capacity, according to reports at Business Insider.
Igor Shepherd is the Readiness and Countermeasures Program Manager for Wyoming's State Health Department. And according to Business Insider, he voiced a rather unorthodox opinion at a nearly ninety-minute talk he gave on November 10th. In it, Shepherd described vaccines as biological weapons and a plot by Russia and China to spread communism worldwide. He made the comments at a November 10 event held by the Keep Colorado Free and Open group, which advocates for constitutional rights amid the pandemic. The plan of destruction right now is going at full speed. Igor Shepherd, Readiness and Countermeasures Program Manager State of Wyoming Shepherd's baseless claims undermine efforts to limit COVID-19's spread and distribute a vaccine. It also props up unscientific 'anti-vaxxer' claims. Johns Hopkins University reports there have been 278,996 US COVID-19 deaths and a 12.5% case rise in Wyoming this week. Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has called those who won't take the pandemic seriously 'knuckleheads.'
Images of skyline in the eastern district of Shanghai as millions of people in China's financial hub are confined to their homes on Monday. The eastern half of the city goes into lockdown to curb the nation's biggest Covid outbreak. IMAGES
Santiago de Chile, Sep 30 (EFE).- Chile lifted Thursday night the state of emergency decreed by the Government to curb the pandemic, ending the nationwide curfew that was imposed since March 2020.The South American country recorded on Thursday 895 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily tally in six weeks. (Camera: JOSE CAVIEDES).B-ROLL OF PEOPLE GOING OUT TO BARS IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE, CHILE, AFTER THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES THE END OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY.
Tokyo (Japan), Sep 28 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Franck Robichon).- Japan will lift the state of emergency for covid-19 in force in Tokyo and 18 other prefectures of the country on October 1, as planned, after appreciating a sharp drop in daily cases and serious patients. FOOTAGE OF THE STREETS OF TOKYO, JAPAN.
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