CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago’s COVID case count is getting lower, but according to the city’s top doctor, the metrics still have some room for improvement. Dr. Allison Arwady, Commissioner of the Chicago Department Health Department, said the numbers are moving in the right direction, but it needs to improve. She added that for the seventh … Read more
Flights are booked. Bags are packed. To cancel Christmas travel plans seems unfathomable at this point. But for many, so does the speed at which the omicron variant is spreading. The highly transmissible Covid-19 variant — which was first detected in late November but has since been detected in nearly 90 countries — is causing … Read more
An aerial view of Cape Town, South Africa, from a helicopter operated by NAC Helicopters Cape Town. Christopher Elliott The end of Covid-19 in South Africa didn’t happen as expected this week. Instead of removing the remaining restrictions as many anticipated, President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to keep fighting the pandemic. “If we all … Read more
Avid cruisers can’t stop, won’t stop cruising — with a huge majority of recent cruisers saying they’d do it again. getty ATnyone hoping the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would go softer on the cruise industry was disappointed this week. The agency’s guidelines for its new voluntary Covid-19 Program for Cruise Ships Operating … Read more
Coronavirus omicron variant and sub-variant make up virus cases. What to know about COVID CDC travel destination alerts, cruises, flatworm named from pandemic. Marta Lavandier PA In the United States, more than 77.4 million people have tested positive for coronavirus as of Friday, Feb. 11, according to Johns Hopkins University. About 915,000 Americans have died. … Read more
There are “encouraging signs of recovery” in Singapore’s tourism sector, according to the Singapore Tourism Board. Visitor arrivals reached 330,000 and tourism receipts reached an estimated $1.9 billion Singapore dollars ($1.4 billion) in 2021, according to data published today by the nation’s tourism board. These numbers, however, are down from 2020, when Singapore received 2.7 … Read more
WestJet is set to slash more flights from its schedule, as the Canadian carrier continues to navigate the COVID-19 travel rules it says are severely impacting recovery. International travel is on the rise but it’s only a fraction of pre-pandemic times. For those who are planning a vacation, some Canadian airlines have been forced to … Read more
Another day—another border reopens. In the past two weeks, a slew of countries announced plans to reopen or relax border restrictions. This includes places that have maintained some of the strictest pandemic-related border controls in the world. The announcements come on the heels of a record-setting period of global infections. According to the World Health … Read more
CHICAGO (CBS) — No states are coming off the COVID-19 Chicago Travel Advisory for the sixth consecutive week. According to the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) no territories are off the travel advisory, which means every state in the country and four territories are on the list. READ MORE: Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit … Read more
Before he medaled at the Olympics this weekend, Mikael Kingsbury donated a pair of his freestyle skis for an interesting project: a limited edition series of kitchen knives. Saint-Jerome blacksmith Gabriel Clerk came up with the idea and proposed it to the Olympian. “These skis have won two world championships in moguls. And when I … Read more