Month: January 2021

The United Kingdom is entering its most challenging weeks since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a top official said Monday, as hospitals face being overrun and morgues fill up. “We’re now at the worst point of this epidemic for the UK. In the future we will have the vaccine, but the numbers at the

They say creativity takes courage. And sometimes courage means finding the self-discipline to sit down and handcraft hundreds of cards by yourself, even if you’re only 5 years old. That was the task burgeoning artist Aryana Chopra set herself. Her goal was to hand design New Year’s cards for residents of a nursing home in

Click here for updates on this story     TEMPE, AZ (KTVK/KPHO) — As COVID-19 spreads at Arizona’s largest university, in-person professors there will be in the state’s next phase coronavirus vaccinations. Spring semester starts Monday at ASU, both in person and online. Right now, there are reportedly hundreds of COVID-19 active cases at the university for

Click here for updates on this story     CHANDLER, AZ (KTVK/KPHO) — The traditional Chandler Ostrich Festival has been postponed a second time due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. The Chandler Chamber of Commerce announced the decision on Friday, postponing the festival to sometime in the fall. Chamber officials had already rescheduled the festival

Political leaders are promising that mass vaccination campaigns will see life return to normal, as a more contagious variant of the coronavirus spreads across dozens of countries, adding urgency to the race to end the pandemic. But vaccination efforts are rolling out slower than promised, raising doubts about an imminent way out of the crisis.