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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is requiring each workers astatine San Francisco International Airport to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees who are exempt indispensable acquisition play testing.

The mandate announced Tuesday applies to astir 46,000 on-site personnel, including employees of contractors and retail tenants.

Mayor London Breed’s bureau said the mandate is the archetypal for a U.S. airdrome and goes into effect immediately.

Some airlines person already announced vaccination mandates for employees.

San Francisco besides requires its municipal workers to beryllium inoculated.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Johnson & Johnson: Booster dose provides beardown effect

— China keeps microorganism astatine bay, at precocious cost, up of Olympics

— U.S. ramping up accelerated COVID-19 tests for home, school

— Q&A: America’s caller COVID-19 rules for planetary travel

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— See AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

LONDON — Bishops of the Church of England person joined calls for satellite leaders to fulfill promises made to trim planetary vaccine inequality.

The bishops voted unanimously Tuesday to endorse a connection made by 2 Church of England bodies demanding an exigency gathering of the G7, the nine of affluent democracies including Canada, the US and the UK, to perpetrate to fulfilling vaccine equity promises.

G7 leaders promised successful June to donate implicit 1 cardinal vaccine doses to lower-income countries. Only 15% of this promised fig has truthful acold been administered.

World leaders presently attending the UN General Assembly successful New York are expected to determine Wednesday connected whether to telephone an exigency G7 gathering to code the issue.

Vaccination sum successful Africa remains astatine 5%, portion 80% of the world’s 5.5 cardinal vaccine doses were administered successful precocious and upper-middle-income countries.

“Rich nations are inactive connected way to amass an excess of 1 cardinal vaccines by the extremity of the year,” the connection said. “Rich nations indispensable not hoard the surpluses amassed.”

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BEAVER DAM, Wis. — A Beaver Dam Unified School Board subordinate has resigned, citing information concerns implicit his enactment for mandating masks for students successful the district’s schools.

Tony Klatt has doubly voted successful favour of the disguise mandate for Beaver Dam schoolhouse and says helium inactive feels powerfully that it was the close determination based connected “facts astatine hand.”

Klatt, who has been connected the committee since April 2019, posted connected his Facebook leafage past week that decisions made due to the fact that COVID-19 person decidedly been challenging, but the decisions were not made lightly and were based connected feedback and information.

About his resignation, Klatt wrote that “when determination is speech of protesting my location and idiosyncratic aboriginal pulls successful beforehand and takes a representation of my code portion my girl is location alone, she does not consciousness safe.”

He said his household doesn’t consciousness harmless erstwhile a car sits idling successful beforehand of his location precocious astatine night, the State Journal reported.

Recently, respective dozens parents demonstrated against the mandate extracurricular of the Beaver Dam Unified School District Educational Service Center.

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BOISE, Idaho — Gov. Brad Little says $10 cardinal successful alleviation funds volition beryllium directed to Idaho hospitals, superior attraction providers, urgent attraction clinics and skilled nursing facilities due to the fact that of the surge successful COVID-19 patients.

Little announced the further wealth connected Tuesday, saying the funds volition assistance easiness the load connected hospitals and different wellness attraction providers. The fig of radical hospitalized with coronavirus has been steadily increasing, with a grounds of astatine slightest 717 patients reported statewide past week.

With a grounds fig of COVID-19 patients successful Idaho’s intensive attraction units, the authorities precocious entered a “crisis standards of care” designation that allows hospitals to statesman wellness attraction rationing arsenic needed.

Nearly each caller cases, hospitalizations and deaths person been among unvaccinated residents, the governor’s bureau says. Idaho’s vaccination complaint remains 1 of lowest successful the nation, with lone astir fractional of the eligible residents afloat vaccinated.

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — U.S. Rep. Bob Latta is the 2nd subordinate of Congress from Ohio to trial affirmative this week for the coronavirus, contempt being vaccinated.

The Republican lawmaker from the 5th Congressional District announced Tuesday helium contracted the microorganism aft helium was exposed to idiosyncratic who besides tested positive. He says he’s experiencing nary symptoms and volition enactment from home.

Latta’s tweet came soon aft U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan announced helium had besides joined the database of much than 80 members of Congress who person contracted the microorganism since the commencement of the pandemic, according to an Associated Press analysis.

A spokeswoman for Latta said Ryan and Latta had not been successful adjacent contact.

Ryan, the Democratic frontrunner for Republican Rob Portman’s seat, says he’ll enactment remotely until helium tin safely instrumentality to Washington.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is betting connected millions much rapid, at-home tests to assistance curb the latest deadly question of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Surging infections are overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter immoderate classrooms. However, the tests are rapidly disappearing from pharmacy shelves successful galore parts of the U.S., and manufacturers accidental it volition instrumentality them weeks to ramp up production. Production was decreased aft request for the tests plummeted successful aboriginal summer.

The ample commercialized labs that process astir tests performed astatine hospitals and investigating sites study plentifulness of capacity. LabCorp, 1 of the biggest laboratory chains, said past week it was delivering results for 150,000 tests daily, with the quality to treble that number.

Rapid tests tin beryllium done anyplace and person a 20-minute turnaround time, but astir schoolhouse investigating programs inactive trust connected tests processed successful labs, which instrumentality results successful a time oregon two.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced a $2 cardinal program to acquisition accelerated tests. For now, retail chains similar CVS and Walgreens person placed limits connected however galore at-home tests customers tin buy.

Abbott Laboratories, the country’s largest accelerated trial maker, says it is presently producing “tens of millions” of its BinaxNOW tests per period and moving to summation capableness successful the coming weeks.

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BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s main vaccination coordinator says susceptible radical apt volition commencement receiving 3rd vaccine doses against COVID-19 adjacent week.

Romania reported 6,789 caller regular cases connected Tuesday, the highest fig since December. The accrued cases and waning vaccinations are putting a strain connected the wellness attraction system.

“The absorption indispensable stay connected expanding complaint vaccination coverage,” main vaccination coordinator Valeriu Gheorghita says, “while enhancing the immune effect of susceptible radical who person already received the archetypal vaccination.”

The boosters volition people radical astatine hazard of processing terrible forms of illness from COVID-19, arsenic good arsenic captious workers specified arsenic aesculapian staff. A determination connected the 3rd shots volition beryllium made successful the coming days, helium says.

Romania has recorded much than 1.1 cardinal confirmed infections and 35,721 confirmed deaths.

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BEIJING — China’s “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate each lawsuit and halt transmission of the coronavirus has kept the state of 1.4 cardinal radical mostly escaped of the disease.

But the nationalist and businesses are paying a steep price. The authorities has renewed metropolis lockdowns and question controls successful immoderate areas to quash outbreaks that began successful July. Most of China is unfastened for travel, but tourists are reluctant to hazard getting caught successful a lockdown. That led to a slump successful August user spending.

International athletes are owed to vie successful the Winter Olympics successful Beijing successful February, but authorities haven’t said if spectators from overseas volition beryllium allowed into the country.

China has reported 4,636 confirmed deaths -- nary since February -- and 95,577 confirmed cases since aboriginal 2020. The full reported cases is smaller than one-day caller infections successful the United States, India and immoderate different countries.

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NEW DELHI — India says the British government’s determination not to admit coronavirus vaccine certificates issued by Indian authorities is simply a “discriminatory policy” that volition interaction its citizens who privation to question to that country.

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla says the caller rules could unit India to “impose reciprocal measures” if the substance is not resolved.

The caller rules necessitate Indians visiting the U.K to quarantine themselves for 10 days and acquisition COVID-19 tests adjacent if they are afloat vaccinated with AstraZeneca vaccines made nether licence successful India.

The rules instrumentality effect adjacent month. India’s Serum Institute, which makes the AstraZeneca vaccine, has not applied for its support by the European Union.

Most radical successful India person been vaccinated with the Indian-made AstraZeneca vaccine. Others person received COVAXIN, which is not utilized successful Britain.

India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, said Monday it volition resume exports and donations of surplus coronavirus vaccines successful October aft a several-month frost owed to a monolithic surge successful home infections.

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WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s authorities is recommending a 3rd dose of vaccine to aesculapian workers and radical implicit property 50.

Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska says the 3rd dose is recommended aft six months from the afloat immunization, besides with the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The booster volition beryllium administered with Pfizer and Moderna products, which wellness experts accidental tin beryllium mixed with different vaccines.

Registration for the 3rd dose volition commencement Sept. 24.

In Poland, much than 19 cardinal of the 38 cardinal colonisation person been afloat immunized. There person been much than 75,500 confirmed deaths.

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BANGKOK — Health officials successful Bangkok person made headway successful their effort to vaccinate children against the coronavirus, giving shots of the Pfizer vaccine to students ages 12 to 18 with underlying diseases.

Vaccinations for that property radical were archetypal offered past period done hospitals, but present are being arranged by schools. A abstracted run by a aesculapian probe institute connected Monday began inoculating children aged 10 to 18 with China’s Sinopharm vaccine.

On Tuesday, 1,500 students received shots of the Pfizer vaccine, 800 for the archetypal clip and 700 arsenic a follow-up to their archetypal changeable successful August.

The Health Ministry plans to springiness Pfizer shots to each students ages 12 to 18 nationwide connected Oct. 4, starting with the 29 provinces astir affected by the coronavirus, including Bangkok. About 41% of the colonisation is afloat vaccinated.

The Health Ministry connected Tuesday announced 10,919 cases and 143 deaths, bringing the totals to 1.5 cardinal confirmed cases and 15,612 confirmed deaths.

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan wellness officials accidental much than 50% of the land nation’s 22 cardinal radical are afloat vaccinated.

According to the wellness ministry latest statistics, 11.1 cardinal of the 22 cardinal colonisation person been afloat inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccines. Sri Lanka expedited the inoculation thrust 2 months agone erstwhile the fig of affirmative cases and deaths began surging owed to the accelerated spreading of the delta variant.

Sri Lanka has been utilizing Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna and Sputnik V vaccines. The wellness ministry plans inoculate citizens supra 20 years aged by the extremity of October.

When the spike came successful July, regular affirmative cases surpassed 3,000. The fig is present beneath 2,000. Sri Lanka has registered 504,491 confirmed cases and 12,125 confirmed deaths.

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