TOKYO — Last week’s record-breaking number of new COVID-19 infections has forced Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to announce Monday the suspension of his entire signature $12 billion travel subsidy package over the country’s new year holidays. Suga said Monday evening he was halting the “Go To Travel” campaign from Dec. 28 to […]
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TOKYO — Last week’s record-breaking number of new COVID-19 infections is forcing Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday to announce the suspension of his entire signature $12 billion travel subsidy package over the country’s new year holidays. Suga said Monday evening he is halting the “Go To Travel” campaign […]
TOKYO — Last week’s record-breaking number of new COVID-19 infections is forcing Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday to announce the suspension of his entire signature $12 billion travel subsidy package over the country’s new year holidays. Suga said Monday evening he is halting the “Go To Travel” campaign from Dec. 28 to Jan. 11. […]
If COVID-19 has halted your large Christmas gathering, there are still ways to celebrate. As coronavirus cases rise, health experts recommend people skip holiday travel due to the possibility of spreading the disease. This year, it’s safest to stay home and spend Christmas with people who live with you, according […]
Rushing to ship your holiday gifts to far-flung loved ones to beat Shipageddon 2020? No pressure, but the shipments of coronavirus vaccines may make deliveries even slower than you thought. Observers are calling it a perfect storm, walloping shoppers who are making more online purchases than ever before because of […]
Photograph: Anthony Devlin/AFP/Getty Images Thousands of travellers who agreed to rebook cancelled holidays – or accepted replacement vouchers – are facing a second wave of heartbreak as they find they can no longer take the trip they planned but the travel firm will not refund them. Over the spring and […]
Which EU countries currently have higher Covid-19 rates than the UK? The UK’s criteria for its own quarantine list includes a country’s infection rate per 100,000 people (although over seven days, rather than 14). Its infection rate threshold for travel corridors has moved with its rising infection rate, upped from […]
GALVESTON Short-term rentals generated 42 percent of $16.1 million collected in hotel occupancy tax revenue in the 2020 fiscal year, a significant jump from 30 percent in 2019, according to data from the Galveston Park Board of Trustees, which oversees tourism. The surge in popularity this year might be related […]
MITO, Japan — Japan has reported its economy expanded at a 22.9% annual rate in the last quarter, as businesses and personal spending recovered from pandemic-related shocks in the spring and early summer. Economists said the upward revision released Tuesday was in line with forecasts and suggests Japan’s economy, the […]
By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer MITO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s economy expanded at a 22.9% annual rate in the last quarter, as businesses and personal spending recovered from pandemic-related shocks in the spring and early summer. Economists said the upward revision released Tuesday was in line with forecasts and […]
The COVID-19 clock is ticking in Sacramento toward two major moments this week. Health officials on Monday said they suspect they will have to announce the shutdown of further businesses by the end of this week or early next week – this time restaurants, hair salons and barbers – as […]
By the time you finish reading this, at the rate we’re at right now, about 10 people in the United States will have died of Covid-19. To date, over 14.7 million have tested positive for the coronavirus. You can now add me, my husband and our three children to that […]
In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, trouble was brewing in Salt Lake County. The county’s seven-day average of new Covid-19 cases had roughly doubled over the past month, to more than 1,200 per day. Nearly one in four Covid tests performed in the county in November had turned up […]
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England have 18 players to choose from and picked an expanded squad to account for this scenario, so unless there are more positive tests, or players start complaining of symptoms, they have enough to cover those in isolation and to continue with the tour. Privately, England are saying they will […]
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England’s tour to South Africa was plunged into crisis on Sunday after two members of the touring party tested positive for Covid 19, forcing the abandonment of the first ODI. The England squad and management, apart from the two who tested positive, were allowed to leave their rooms on Sunday after starting the […]
Covid vaccine plans for frail care home residents were in chaos tonight after they were told: Get on the bus. The Government says they will have to travel to hospital hubs for the jab but angry care bosses said: “There’s no way they can do that.” Care homes fear vaccines […]
Yet it’s connection we all want, and this Christmas is a perfect opportunity to work out how to get it. From a festive Zoom quiz or a walk with a friend to standing outside an elderly parent’s house raising a toast through the window, we can make this Christmas stand […]
There is no crowding into a small kitchen this year, waiting for your turn with the stand mixer or the oven, and grabbing handfuls of warm treats off a buffet platter. Like so many other 2020 events, holiday cookie swaps will look a little different in the time of social […]
Lee said the resources the office still has are being focused on helping artists and arts organizations navigate public and private funding sources. “There’s a diversity of resources available to artists. It was definitely true at the beginning of COVID, unique funds were created,” she said. “We hope to be […]
Stephanie Kelton Mike McGregor Text size Stephanie Kelton Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook, N.Y. Stephanie Kelton, 51, is a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University, in Stony Brook, N.Y., and a senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis […]