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Africa’s COVID-19 envoy blasts EU, COVAX over vaccine crisis

by CARA ANNA Associated Press July 1, 2021July 1, 2021

The envoy says ‘not one dose, not one vial, has left a European factory for Africa’ as the continent struggles with a third surge of infections.

Business, Nation & World

Thailand bets on ‘Phuket sandbox’ program to save tourism

by TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and DAVID RISING Associated Press June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

The industry has been devastated by the pandemic, and nowhere has it been felt more than on the resort island off the country’s southern coast.

Local & State

Mills thanks public, praises state officials for response to deadly pandemic

by Joe Lawlor and Rachel Ohm June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

At the state’s last regularly scheduled briefing on COVID-19, Gov. Janet Mills and Maine CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah expressed sorrow for those who died and thanked Mainers for their sacrifices.

Local & State, Nation & World, Religion and Values

Waldoboro church falls victim to pandemic, and others worry whether worshippers will return

by DAVID SHARP Associated Press June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

Smaller organizations with older congregations that struggled to adapt during the pandemic are in the greatest danger of a downward spiral from which they can’t recover.

Business, Nation & World

Rental assistance fell victim to politics, bureaucracy

by SARAH KLEINER and TAYLOR JOHNSTON of the Center for Public Integrity and MICHAEL CASEY of The Associated Press June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

A rental crisis spurred by the pandemic prompted many states to make bold promises to help renters, but most failed to deliver on them after Congress passed the sweeping CARES Act in March 2020

Nation & World

Growing gaps in U.S. vaccination rates show regions at risk

by Andre Tartar, Kristen V Brown and Tom Randall Bloomberg June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

In the least vaccinated counties, many of them in the South and Central regions of the U.S., less than half as many people have gotten at least one COVID vaccine dose as in the most vaccinated counties in the cities and on the coasts.

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