The Latest: Cruise ships return to San Francisco on Monday

SAN FRANCISCO — Cruise ships are returning to San Francisco aft a 19-month hiatus brought connected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Mayor London Breed announced the Majestic Princess volition sail into the larboard of San Francisco connected Monday. It’s the archetypal cruise vessel to dock successful the San Francisco Bay Area since March 2020, erstwhile the Grand Princess captured the world’s attention. The vessel was carrying radical infected with the coronavirus, and thousands connected committee were quarantined arsenic it idled disconnected the California coast.

The Majestic Princess volition sail from Los Angeles for a weeklong California seashore voyage that volition see an overnight halt successful San Francisco. The larboard of San Francisco expects to invited 21 cruise ships done the remainder of the year.

Passengers volition person to amusement they were vaccinated astatine slightest 14 days earlier embarking connected the cruise and person impervious of vaccination. They indispensable besides person a antagonistic COVID-19 trial taken wrong 2 days of their embarkation, according to a connection from Princess Cruises, a Carnival Corp. subsidiary that operates the vessel.

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The CDC’s latest cruise vessel guidance recommends passengers amusement impervious of vaccination and a caller antagonistic test. It advises travelers who are astatine higher hazard for terrible COVID-19 unwellness to debar cruises.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Brazil coronavirus deaths surpass 600,000, 2nd globally down U.S.

— Russia hits microorganism death grounds arsenic autumn surge persists

— San Francisco to invited cruise ships after 19-month hiatus

— Nevada among past states to adhd accelerated tests to microorganism tally

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— See each of AP’s pandemic sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

HONOLULU — Honolulu volition let a constricted fig of fans astatine University of Hawaii shot games arsenic it begins easing coronavirus restrictions.

The politician and the politician accidental they’re relaxing rules for outdoor amusement venues arsenic vaccination rates emergence and the diminution of lawsuit counts, trial positivity rates and hospitalizations. Starting Wednesday, outdoor venues tin let up to 1,000 attendees oregon up to 50% of their afloat capacity, whichever is smaller.

Attendees volition request to beryllium vaccinated, deterioration masks and support carnal distance. Restrictions connected indoor entertainment, outdoor weddings, play tournaments and roadworthy races volition beryllium eased.

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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation reported 51 coronavirus cases and 1 decease connected Friday.

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It was the 3rd consecutive time the people reported astatine slightest 1 coronavirus-related decease aft going six days with nary further deaths.

Navajo officials are urging radical to get vaccinated, deterioration masks successful nationalist and minimize travel. The tribe’s preservation is the country’s largest astatine 27,000 quadrate miles and it covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

The latest numbers accrued the tribe’s totals to 34,3350 confirmed cases and 1,454 confirmed deaths.

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MOSCOW — Russia has reached different grounds regular decease toll from COVID-19, with 968 deaths registered connected Saturday.

The nationalist coronavirus task unit has reported a persistent rise, with astir regular records successful October. It’s astir 100 much regular deaths than successful precocious September.

The task unit besides reported much than 29,000 caller regular infections. Authorities says the steep emergence successful cases and deaths is due to the fact that of the nation’s debased vaccination rate.

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The lawman premier curate says 47.8 cardinal Russians, oregon 33% of the population, person received astatine slightest 1 dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

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SAO PAULO — Brazil has topped 600,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths, the second-highest planetary toll down the United States.

However, caller less cases and deaths person encouraged mayors and governors to admit fans into shot matches and let bars and restaurants enactment unfastened late.

The country’s mean regular decease toll has hovered astir 500 for a month, down sharply from much than 3,000 successful April. Almost 45% of the colonisation is afloat vaccinated, and a booster changeable is being administered to the elderly.

The U.S. has surpassed 710,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths.

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ROME — Italy volition connection a 3rd dose of a coronavirus vaccine to each radical implicit 60 who completed vaccination astatine slightest six months ago.

The Health Ministry says booster shots besides volition beryllium offered to those with “fragile” wellness conditions, careless of age. Italy already had approved giving a 3rd dose of the vaccine to radical implicit 80 oregon surviving successful attraction homes, on with wellness attraction personnel, transplant recipients and those with depressed immunity.

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Ministry authorities person said a 3rd changeable to each who person been vaccinated isn’t nether consideration. In Italy, 80% of those 12 oregon older person been afloat vaccinated.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — The proportionality of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations among vaccinated Pennsylvania residents has risen sharply successful the past month, though the changeable remains broadly protective.

That’s according to caller statewide wellness data. The latest Department of Health statistic connected alleged “breakthrough” infections amusement from Sept. 5 to Oct. 4, vaccinated radical represented conscionable implicit a 4th (26%) of much than 135,000 caller infections and astir 5,000 infirmary admissions crossed the state.

That’s up from conscionable 6% of cases and 5% of hospitalizations betwixt January and September. Pennsylvania residents who stay unvaccinated are inactive acold much apt to declaration the coronavirus, go hospitalized and dice than those who got the shot.

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Dr. Denise Johnson, the state’s acting doc general, says the information reinforced the lawsuit for booster shots. Last month, U.S. wellness officials approved a 3rd dose of the Pfizer vaccine for each Americans 65 and older, on with younger radical with wellness issues oregon those successful high-risk, frontline jobs.

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County sheriff says helium won’t enforce the county’s vaccine mandate successful his agency.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva oversees the largest sheriff’s section successful the region with astir 18,000 employees. He said Thursday successful a Facebook Live lawsuit that helium doesn’t program to transportation retired the county’s mandate.

Los Angeles County employees had to beryllium afloat vaccinated by Oct. 1. The mandate was issued by enforcement bid successful August and allows lone spiritual and aesculapian exemptions.

Villanueva says his employees are consenting to beryllium terminated alternatively than get vaccinated. More than 26,000 radical person died of the coronavirus successful Los Angeles County.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama’s apical wellness authoritative is urging radical who’ve not been vaccinated for the coronavirus to get a changeable wrong the adjacent week to assistance forestall different vacation spike of infections and deaths.

Dr. Scott Harris says it takes 5 oregon six weeks for idiosyncratic to summation the maximum magnitude of immunity aft the archetypal vaccine successful a shot-two process. He says that means clip is moving retired for radical to person “the safest imaginable Thanksgiving.”

Harris says helium was “cautiously optimistic” the holidays won’t beryllium arsenic deadly arsenic past twelvemonth due to the fact that of vaccinations and the ample fig of radical who person antibodies aft contracting the virus.

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NEW YORK — A sheet of vaccine experts volition conscionable successful aboriginal November to see whether to urge the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 12.

The Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices scheduled a two-day gathering for Nov. 2-3, wellness officials said Friday. The Pfizer taxable is expected to instrumentality up portion of the agenda.

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The experts are anticipating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration volition person decided by past whether to authorize usage of the Pfizer vaccine for children betwixt ages 5 to 11. The committee’s occupation is to assistance the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make recommendations for doctors and the nationalist astir which vaccines should beryllium utilized and however they should beryllium given.

Currently, Pfizer vaccines are authorized lone for radical 12 and older.

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WARSAW — Polish biotechnology institution Mabion S.A. has signed a $372 cardinal declaration to nutrient 1 of the earthy materials that American institution Novavax needs to marque its COVID-19 vaccine.

Under the four-year deal, Mabion volition nutrient a macromolecule antigen opening successful December astatine its facilities successful Konstantynow Lodzki, cardinal Poland. It is Poland’s largest declaration successful the biotechnology sector.

Novavax has partnered with Serum Institute of India and asked regulators successful India, Indonesia and Philippines this week to let exigency usage of its NVX-CoV2373 vaccine, which is easier to store, cheaper to marque and not already reserved by affluent nations.

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Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla had said the institution had hoped to motorboat the vaccine successful India by June, but manufacturing was hobbled by the U.S. embargo connected exports of captious earthy materials. The institution hopes to merchantability the vaccine successful September, and Mabion volition beryllium portion of the proviso concatenation going forward.

“The summation of Mabion’s method expertise and accumulation capableness to Novavax’ planetary manufacturing web expands our quality to supply wide entree to our vaccine crossed aggregate regions,” Novavax Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer Rick Crowley said.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Home wellness aides who garbage to get a COVID-19 vaccination are barred from moving successful New York nether a caller authorities mandate.

The mandate, enactment successful spot by Gov. Kathy Hochul, besides applies to workers astatine assisted surviving homes, hospice care, attraction centers and AIDS location attraction programs. It comes connected apical of different mandate, implemented past month, that covered infirmary and nursing location workers.

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Data connected however galore of the state’s much than 210,000 location wellness aides had been vaccinated up of the deadline Friday wasn’t instantly disposable from the state.

The Home Healthcare Workers of America precocious estimated astir 70% of the group’s 32,000 members had received the coronavirus shot.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A justice has rejected a petition by 33 Oregon State Police troopers to temporarily halt a mandate that requires them to get afloat vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 18.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports retired Oregon Supreme Court Justice Jack Landau said successful a written sentiment Thursday that based connected lawsuit instrumentality “the constabulary powerfulness of the authorities includes the authorization to enact nationalist wellness laws that whitethorn person the effect of curtailing idiosyncratic rights.”

Landau went connected to accidental that Gov. Kate Brown is acting wrong her legislatively granted authorization successful issuing the vaccine mandate. Brown has mandated vaccinations for the state’s enforcement subdivision employees, including the troopers, and for hundreds of thousands of wellness attraction workers and K-12 educators and volunteers.

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Religious oregon aesculapian exemptions tin beryllium requested. At slightest 8 lawsuits person been filed.

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LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s politician says a alteration successful coronavirus lawsuit rates and an summation successful vaccinations is partially owed to a astir two-month deployment of national exigency absorption “surge teams” successful areas of Las Vegas.

Gov. Steve Sisolak says trial positivity, a cardinal measurement of the dispersed of the coronavirus, has decreased statewide to 8.5%.

The rate, measured arsenic a 14-day average, stood Thursday astatine 6.7% successful Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County. It was higher successful immoderate parts of the state, including 22.6% successful Elko County. The World Health Organization extremity is 5% for relaxing measures limiting the coronavirus.

Statewide, Sisolak says 63% of the eligible colonisation property 12 and older has received astatine slightest 1 shot.

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