
The number of companies filing for voluntary liquidation in England and Wales hit a record in the second quarter after COVID support programs were removed, Reuters reported.Earlier this week, the Bay Area transit system BART brought back its mask mandate. “Also, please respect every individual’s decision to wear a mask or not.” The move comes amid a surge in the highly transmissible BA.5 variant of COVID-19.

“Don’t hesitate to continue wearing a face mask if you feel more comfortable doing so,” the email reads.

Is dropping its face-mask mandate for employees at “most locations,” The Verge reported, citing an internal email from the company’s COVID response team that it obtained. WSJ’s Denise Roland explains what you need to know about the outbreak. The continuing spread of monkeypox has prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency to speed efforts to combat the monkeypox outbreak, becoming the second state in three days to take the step, after New York. Daskalakis, the director of the agency’s HIV prevention division and a national expert on issues affecting the LGBTQ community, previously helped lead New York City’s COVID-19 response. Demetre Daskalakis of the CDC will be named his deputy. Biden will announce Tuesday that he has tapped Robert Fenton, who helped lead FEMA’s mass vaccination effort for COVID-19 as the agency’s acting administrator when Biden first took office, as the White House coordinator.

“Given that a substantial portion of people do have a rapid positive test after 5 days, I think an updated recommendation should include people having a negative rapid test before coming out of isolation for COVID,” Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the Biden administration’s senior adviser on testing from December until April told the Washington Post.Ĭoronavirus Update: MarketWatch’s daily roundup has been curating and reporting all the latest developments every weekday since the coronavirus pandemic began Yet new research shows that people often remain infectious for longer than five days, meaning it’s vital that when ending isolation, they continue to wear a well-fitting mask around others at home or in indoor spaces through day 10, the paper reported. The CDC recommends a timeline of five days of isolation, but does not insist on a negative test that would prove that a patient is no longer shedding virus and unlikely to infect another person. In the U.K., it sits on the shelf.Įxperts are concerned, however, that the CDC’s guidelines on isolation are confusing and do not reflect the changing nature of the virus some two-and-a-half years into the pandemic, the Washington Post reported. Don’t miss: Paxlovid has been given to Biden and millions of Americans infected with COVID-19.
