CONNECTICUT — Gov. Ned Lamont said he is worried about Danbury’s 7 percent COVID-19 positivity rate, but that’s just one of the reasons the state Department of Public Health issued a “COVID-19 alert” for the city on Friday. The spike in COVID-19 cases in Hat City — and the state’s […]

TOKYO — Asian travel companies are increasingly optimistic that recent breakthroughs in producing effective coronavirus vaccines will soon help the industry get back to normality — even though worries persist about a near-term resurgence of the pandemic and some officials suggest incentives to travel should be curbed. While the travel industry […]