NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will increase COVID-19 testing in schools when the holiday break ends next week in an effort to keep classrooms open despite a surge in infections due to the highly infectious omicron variant of the virus, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. New York state ...
Editor’s Note: This is the first of five stories highlighting some of the most-read stories in The Post-Journal during the past year. Today’s series focuses on area businesses. The Jamestown area is buzzing with excitement over the opening of a Target store in the former Kmart store in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace took effect Monday amid a spike in coronavirus infections. Workers at roughly 184,000 businesses were required to show proof they have received ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Flight cancellations that disrupted holiday travel stretched into Monday with thousands of U.S. flights spiked during one of the year's busiest travel periods because of crews out sick with COVID-19 and now storm fronts creating more havoc. Flight delays and cancellations ...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in ...
BOSTON (AP) — Staff absences for COVID-19 tripled this month in London's hospitals, and nearly 10% of the city's firefighters called out sick. In New York, about 2,700 police officers were absent earlier this week — twice the number who are ill on an average day. And on Cape Cod in ...
