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COVID-19: Number of U.K. variant cases in B.C. climbs to 6, South Africa variant to 3

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COVID-19 variants in British Columbia climbed again on Friday.Health officials said they had confirmed six cases of the U.K.

variant (B.1.1.7), and three cases of the South African variant (B.1.351). ‘Realistic possibility’ COVID-19 variant from U.K.

could be deadlier, researchers say Both variants are believed to be more contagious, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday new evidence had emerged to suggest the U.K.

variant is also more deadly.B.C. discovered its first case of the U.K. variant in late December, and announced the first case of the South African variant last week.The BC CDC said four cases of the U.K.

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Valentine’s Day deals to get back at your ex

Topo Chico Hard Seltzer announced it is selling prickly valentines to send to a special ex-someone. "Bolder (and sharper) than your typical bouquet of flowers, each Prickly Valentine comes with a mini-cactus and commemorative card," the seltzer brand revealed in a press release.There is currently a limit of one cactus per customer, and an alcohol purchase is required. You can make a "point" to that lousy person and order here.With a $10 donation this Valentine's Day, The Florida Aquarium will also let you name a roach after an ex.Those who participate will receive a certificate commemorating the occasion and a photo of the roach. Participants will also be able to send a message with "words you wish you had said" or a "funny revenge confession." The aquarium said amusing, family-friendly confessions will be posted with anonymity on The Florida Aquarium’s social media. An, don't worry – they'll never "Hiss & Tell" who sent them! You can get started here.Meanwhile, the San Antonio Zoo will also host its Cry Me a Cockroach Fundraiser for its third year, where funds raised support the zoo’s vision of securing a future for wildlife. The Madagascar Hissing Cockroach.

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What is the consumer price index and how is it used to measure inflation?

Sale stickers on a store shelf. A seven percent increase in the consumer price index (CPI) over the 12 months to December was the highest since 1982.

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COVID-19 hospitalizations decrease slightly as Alberta’s vaccine passport program officially expires

COVID-19 decreased slightly on Wednesday as Alberta’s vaccine passport program officially expired.Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday that the restrictions exemption program would be lifted at midnight. The REP came into effect in September, and required Albertans to show proof of double vaccination or a negative rapid test result to obtain entry to businesses operating under the program.

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B.C. bringing in vaccine mandate for all remaining health-care workers

COVID-19, the province is finally implementing the policy.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced on Wednesday family doctors, dentists, chiropractors, physiotherapists and pharmacists will be required to be vaccinated by March 24, 2022.Henry said there is a process in place for medical exemptions, which can be submitted to her office.“We have been working with the colleges to sort through the details on the notice we put forward in October.

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Rapid tests to be made available for free at Ontario grocery stores, pharmacies

Whether you’re heading to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription or doing your groceries, you’ll now be able to pick up a kit of rapid antigen tests for free. It comes as COVID-19 cases across Ontario are on the decline and the province prepares to lift additional public health measures of the coming weeks.

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Road closures put in place around Queen’s Park ahead of possible protest

Toronto Police has put in place a number of road closures over rumblings on social media that a protest connected to the Ottawa convoy could come to the city. Erica Vella has more.

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Govt. program does not pay for crack pipes, White House says

Man holding a crack pipe. WASHINGTON (AP) - Following outrage on the political right, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to help prevent additional harm to people who use illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth."No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House drug policy adviser Rahul Gupta said in a statement.White House press secretary Jen Psaki said separately that was never the intention, complaining that impression was created by "inaccurate reporting."Monday was the deadline for service organizations and state and local governments to apply for a share of $30 million in federal money for "harm reduction" efforts intended to prevent disease, injury and other collateral trauma to people addicted to illicit drugs.RELATED: 93,000 Americans died of overdoses last year, a new recordThe original request for funding proposals from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration had listed "safe smoking kits/supplies" among the items that could be purchased with taxpayer money.

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Smithsonian Museum is asking for pictures from Disney vacations

FILE - Crowds fill Main Street USA in front of Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom on the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World. Vacation photos have a new use.The Smithsonian National Museum of American History is asking for vacation photos from Disneyland in California or Disney World in Florida.

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2 men charged in string of New Castle County residential burglaries

NEW CASTLE, Del. - Police in New Castle County arrested two men they say are behind a string of home burglaries. Police say the men chose their victims because of their ethnicity.They say crimes similar to these have been reported to multiple police agencies from outside the state, including as far south as Georgia.Watches, jewelry, designer bags and sneakers.

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COVID-19: Ontario health minister says ‘not in the clear’ yet to end proof of vaccination, masking

As Alberta and Saskatchewan drop most COVID-19 restrictions, Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Wednesday there was no plan to drop the proof of vaccination or masking requirements yet as the province is “not in the clear” to do so.

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The Healing: Black men yoga takes shape to combat mental health

CHICAGO - When friends Tristan Lewis and Andrew Smith invited a few Black men to take part in a yoga class in Chicago in 2020, they didn’t know it would spur a nationwide movement.The two men created The Healing, a nonprofit aimed at promoting mental health for Black men and offering resources for improvement. Services include events where participants can share with each other about various struggles or sessions with mental health professionals.Most notably, the organization offers virtual yoga classes for Black men with the next one scheduled to place on Feb.

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Camden officials distribute KN95 masks, as slow rollout of free masks nationwide begins

CAMDEN, N.J. - Thousands of KN95 masks, recently donated by Cooper University Hospital, were given out in Camden County Wednesday, by city officials, in an effort to help halt the spread of COVID-19.Last month, the U.S. Government announced it would be handing out 400 million N95 masks to everyone in the country and those masks have started to appear in some stores.

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Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong's stolen classic car recovered in OC

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 24: Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs onstage during the 2019 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for dcp) ORANGE, Calif. - The Costa Mesa Police Department announced Wednesday the cherished classic car belonging to Green Day’s lead vocalist, Billie Joe Armstrong, has been recovered days after it was reported stolen.Green Day, formed in San Francisco's East Bay Area, is a Grammy award-winning rock band whose biggest hits include "Wake Me Up When September Ends," "When I Come Around," and "Holiday." The band's music is also featured in the musical "American Idiot." On the morning of Feb.

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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says U.K. confident in vaccine contracts, supply when asked about Astrozeneca-EU dispute

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson side-stepped commenting on the dispute between COVID-19 vaccine-maker Astrozeneca and the European Union Wednesday, saying he was confident in the U.K.’s contracts and its supply. The European Union’s dispute with AstraZeneca intensified Wednesday, with the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker denying the EU’s assertion that it had pulled out of talks on vaccine supplies.

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Boris Johnson accused of failing to listen to bereaved families during pandemic

Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of not listening to bereaved families as he held a heart-breaking call with people who have lost loved ones to the virus.

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Family of first Brit Covid victim demand answers after year of unimaginable tragedy

This Saturday Peter Attwood’s family will come together for a Zoom call like millions of others have throughout lockdown.

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AstraZeneca UK COVID vaccine plant evacuated after over a suspicious package

Wrexham: A factory in Wales that produces AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine was partially evacuated on Wednesday after it received a suspicious package and police said a bomb disposal unit was dealing with the incident.Operated by Wockhardt UK, the plant provides so-called fill-and-finish capacity for AstraZeneca's UK supply chain, which is the final manufacturing step of putting vaccines into vials or syringes and packaging them.AstraZeneca has agreed to supply Britain with 100 million doses of the vaccine it developed with Oxford University.A spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his office was being kept up to date on developments in Wales.AstraZeneca is also currently in a dispute with the European Union after it cut vaccine

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Japan’s pushback against G-7 inviteJapan has raised concerns about British proposals to invite Australia, India and South Korea to a meeting of Group of Seven foreign ministers and have them sign up to a joint charter with the forum, according to a diplomatic cable seen by Bloomberg. The forum’s European members—France, Italy and Germany—hold similar views, and some of its diplomats have expressed concerns that the UK is attempting to reshape the G-7 by the back door, by establishing a coalition of 10 leading democracies.

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Boris Johnson accused of failings over 100,000 covid deaths on his watch

Keir Starmer said vital lessons were not being learned from the record 100,000 death toll on the Prime Minister’s watch as he accused Johnson of failings.Confronting Johnson at Prime Minister’s Questions Starmer said: “Behind every death is a grieving family.

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Boris Johnson claims public don't want him to learn lessons of Covid right now

Boris Johnson has claimed the public don’t want him to “learn the lessons” of coronavirus right now because the UK is still in the middle of the pandemic.

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Boris Johnson to give statement on Covid-19 crisis to Parliament after deaths top 100k

Boris Johnson will today give a statement to Parliament about Covid-19 - after the UK became just the fifth country in the world to pass 100,000 deaths.

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Piers Morgan furiously slams ‘dithering’ Boris Johnson after PM said he did ‘everything he could’ amid Covid pandemic

PIERS Morgan furiously lashed out at "dithering" Boris Johnson today over the Covid pandemic after the Prime Minister insisted he'd done "everything he could".

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Political covid decisions led to UK's second wave of infection, warns public health expert

Linda Bauld said the overall response will be viewed as a "system failure" in a damning verdict on the government's leadership.Her remarks come one day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government did "all we could" to tackle the pandemic - despite shocking figures putting Britain among the worst in the world."I think we’re going to look back on this as a system failure," prof Bauld told BBC Radio Scotland."I think we came into this pandemic under prepared for a virus like this, we at a UK level chose not to follow the model of south-east Asian countries."During the last 11 months the response and some of the decisions that have been made have certainly directly contributed particularly to the second wave.

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Dr Hilary warns of 'another 100,000 deaths' under government's bungling Covid strategy

Dr Hilary Jones has warned that there could be another 100,000 deaths in the UK due to coronavirus if the government's strategy continues.

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How Covid pandemic got so bad - from lockdown delay, to care home crisis, to PPE failures

It is the heartbreaking number we all hoped we’d never reach.

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Piers Morgan slams Boris Johnson's apology over 'shocking' COVID death toll 'That's a lie'

Piers Morgan, 55, has taken aim at Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after he said he was “deeply sorry” and “will learn lessons” as the UK passed 100,000 coronavirus deaths.The Good Morning Britain host accused the PM of “lying” when he said that he had done everything in his power to minimise the “loss of life” during the COVID-19 pandemic.Piers tweeted in view of his seven million followers: “BREAKING: Boris Johnson says he's 'deeply sorry' for the shocking UK covid death toll & insists, ‘we truly did everything we could and continue to do everything we can to minimise loss of life.’“But that's a lie. He didn't.

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Coronavirus: Britain officially passes 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, Boris Johnson announces

The sorrow of Britain’s COVID-19 death toll, which passed 100,000 on Tuesday was hard to compute, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

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Gogglebox's Tom Malone blasts 'disgusting' Dubai influencers as UK Covid deaths reach 100k

Gogglebox regular Tom Malone, 26, shared his thoughts on the latest UK coronavirus-related death figures following Boris Johnson’s latest speech this evening.

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Boris Johnson claims 'we did everything we could' to halt covid as death toll passes 100,000

Prime Minister told the public that the lives lost and the sacrifice made by millions as the country reached a fatal 100,000 milestone in the year-long pandemic would be commemorated. But on the day official stats showed the UK as having the highest covid death toll in Europe, Johnson excused himself from responsibility.

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Quarantine hotels plan confirmed for international travellers to limit covid spread in Scotland

coronavirus hotspots look set to be made to quarantine in hotels to limit the spread of new variants.Prime Minister Boris Johnson will discuss the proposals – designed to ensure people follow self-isolation rules – with senior ministers at the “Covid Operations” committee.Home Secretary Priti Patel declined to comment on “speculation” about quarantine hotels as she answered an urgent question in the Commons.Reports have suggested that arrivals in England would have to cover the price of quarantining in hotels for 10 days, potentially setting them back more than £1,000.The BBC said the requirement to isolate in a hotel would apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal.Addressing MSPs, Swinney said

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Johnson to rule on plans for UK quarantine hotels

Boris Johnson is expected to approve plans to force some travellers arriving to the UK to quarantine in hotels to limit the spread of new coronavirus variants.

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UK arrivals 'to pay more than £1,000 for hotel quarantine stay' to stop spread of Covid

UK arrivals forced to quarantine in hotels under a new Covid crackdown on travellers will reportedly face bills of more than £1,000 for their stay.

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R-Day: Boris Johnson greets India, says working together to fight Covid

The Indian-Americans driving Biden’s agendaIn his video message to celebrate the birth of an “extraordinary Constitution" that established India “as the biggest sovereign democracy in the world", the UK PM reiterated his plan to visit India in the coming months.“I was hugely looking forward to joining you for this important occasion at the kind invitation of my friend Prime Minister Modi, alas our common struggle against COVID has kept me in London," said Johnson.“As I speak, our two countries are working side by side to develop, produce and distribute vaccines that will help to free humanity from the pandemic. And thanks to the combined efforts of Britain, India and many other nations, we are on the road to success against COVID.

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Boris Johnson set to use covid vaccine Scotland roll-out to show 'strength of UK'

Prime Minister is to use the example of the army and the UK-funding for a vaccine as arguments for the strength of the United Kingdom as he launches a hard response to Nicola Sturgeon’s latest independence demands.

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Government urged to cancel Festival of Brexit and use £120 million for COVID-19 recovery

coronavirus recovery efforts as the pandemic continues.The 2022 event, which was first touted under Theresa May’s government, is described as a showcase for “the UK’s unique strengths in creativity and innovation” after leaving the European Union – with comparisons to the 1951 Festival of Britain.While critics have consistently questioned the estimated £120m cost of the festival, planning took a step forward last year when organisers called for “daring, new and popular” ideas that will unite the nation.Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone has now called on Boris Johnson‘s government to scrap the event entirely – and says it would be “sick” to spend the huge sum on the celebration during the pandemic.Mr Stone, who is the Liberal Democrats’ spokesperson

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Kenneth Branagh to Play Boris Johnson in Michael Winterbottom's COVID Drama Series

Kenneth Branagh is set to play U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Michael Winterbottom's upcoming limited series charting the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Kenneth Branagh to play Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 'remarkable' new Covid TV drama

British actor Kenneth Branagh is set to play Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a new Sky Atlantic drama about the coronavirus pandemic.

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New Covid strain in India: 150 people infected with UK virus variant, says govt

coronavirus in India has climbed to 150, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday."The total number of persons found infected with the UK strain of COVID-19 is 150," the ministry said.All of them have been kept in single room isolation in designated health care facilities by the respective state governments, the ministry had earlier said.Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine.

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UK COVID-19 variant ‘may be’ more deadly, prime minister says

FILE - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a coronavirus press conference at 10 Downing Street on Jan. 22, 2021 in London, England.

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‘Realistic possibility’ COVID-19 variant from U.K. could be deadlier, researchers say

Boris Johnson said on Friday the COVID-19 variant first discovered in the U.K. may be associated with a higher level of mortality.

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Evidence that new Covid-19 variant may have higher death rate - Johnson

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said there is some evidence that the new variant of coronavirus first identified in the UK may be linked to a higher death rate.

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Interactive map shows 60,000 people catching Covid each day - how many are in your area?

A new interactive map tracking estimates of coronavirus cases in every area of England shows numbers are beginning to fall.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

COVID-19: Number of U.K. variant cases in B.C. climbs to 6, South Africa variant to 3

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