Parisians — along with the rest of this nation of 67 million — were confined to their homes as of Friday, for the second time in seven months, under a presidential decree ratified by Parliament.
Two residents of the Hawaiian island of Lanai infected with the coronavirus have been flown to hospitals as the number of cases on the island increased, health officials said.
Development of a $10.5 million facility on Hawaii island to make compost using green waste and food waste has been postponed because of a shortage of the key components.
A large electronic sign orders Lanai residents to stay at home except for essentials and no social gatherings. The island of 3,000 people is quiet, but medical teams are busy.
Pope Francis is halting his public general audiences and will limit participation at Christmas and other upcoming Masses amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Italy and the Vatican, officials said Thursday.
Germany’s disease control agency said local health authorities reported 16,774 new positive tests for COVID-19 in the past day, pushing the country’s total since the start of the outbreak close to the half million-mark.
State Public Safety Department officials said seven Hawaii inmates at the facility are hospitalized with coronavirus, and 741 are in precautionary quarantine.
The state Health Department said the death toll was corrected after two fatalities (one on Lanai and one on Maui) were “determined not to be related to COVID-19.”
