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London’s field hospital to be used amid acute COVID pressure

LONDON (AP) — Britain's National Health Service will from next week employ a little-used field hospital specially built at a huge exhibition center in east London in the early days of the pandemic last spring. NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens said Thursday that the pressures facing hospitals in London and the southeast of England are so acute that the Nightingale hospital at the ExCel London will be opened next week to inpatients. A few hundred beds for non-COVID patients are expected to be available at first. "The entirety of the health service in London is mobilizing to ...

Death of 9 nuns highlights toll of coronavirus in convents

By MARY ESCH Associated Press LATHAM, N.Y. — Through the month of December, mixed in with joyful Christmas messages, death announcements filled the Facebook page of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as a coronavirus outbreak took its toll in a residence for retired and infirm ...

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities announced plans on Wednesday to shut all restaurants, bars, sports facilities and cultural institutions through February in response to persistently high coronavirus transmission rates, ending exemptions that have allowed some regions where infections are lower to keep them open. The government said some of the sites that were expected to reopen on Jan. 22 are to remain closed for five more weeks, and all others now open will be shut too. The national order, to take effect on Saturday, does not affect ski stations that have stayed open even as those ...

Pandemic haunts new year as virus growth outpaces vaccines given

LONDON (AP) — Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the coronavirus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California, filling hospitals and threatening livelihoods anew as governments lock down businesses and race to find ...

Cases found at nursing home

MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Medical Care Facility in Ishpeming has announced eight staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. The facility reported in a Wednesday Facebook post that no residents tested positive from last week’s testing, but three of the staff members who tested positive are home under quarantine. MCMCF said it expected to hear on this week’s testing soon and that Walgreens will be at the facility on Wednesday to administer the Moderna vaccine. “This will hopefully get us back on the road to normalcy,” MCMCF said in the post. “All staff continue ...