Deliveries of the vaccine are expected to start Saturday, with inoculations beginning across the 27-nation bloc next week.
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Congress’ rescue aid: A dose of support, but is it enough?
The package will provide urgently needed benefits to the unemployed, loans to help small businesses stay open and up to $600 in cash payments to most individuals.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
The holidays could make or break struggling stores
For some retailers, it could be their last chance at survival. And even a last-minute sales boost could be too late to save them.
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Britain hit with travel bans over new virus strain
Trucks waiting to get out of Britain were backed up for miles Monday after France banned entrance for 48 hours.
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Biden gets COVID-19 vaccine, says ‘nothing to worry about’
President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe
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British virus mutation triggers alarm across Europe as more countries restrict UK travel
Trucks waiting to get out of Britain are backing up for miles and people are stranded at airports as many countries impose stringent travel restrictions over concerns about a new strain of the coronavirus.
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Instructors: Music programs hardest hit academic discipline due to COVID
Windham High School’s choir director: “How do you teach choir when you can’t sing?”
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New COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Maine as inoculations begin at nursing homes
Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston received 60 vials of a new Moderna vaccine Monday morning, while The Cedars in Portland hosted its first vaccination clinic for residents and employees.
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California stopped a virus surge in March with a stay-at-home order. Why isn’t this one working?
The latest orders came after the virus was already raging out of control, in part because of Thanksgiving travel — a difference experts say will make the current surge much harder to corral.
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Trump officials attacked CDC virus reports, House panel says
A House investigative panel says Trump administration political appointees tried to block or change more than a dozen government articles that detailed scientific findings about the spread of the coronavirus.