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Shanghai Disney guests kept in closed park for virus testing

BEIJING (AP) — Visitors to Shanghai Disneyland were temporarily blocked from leaving as part of virus testing that extended to more than 400,000 people, the city government announced Tuesday. The park closed Monday for testing of staff and visitors, Walt Disney Co. and the government said ...

Workers leave iPhone factory in Zhengzhou amid COVID curbs

HONG KONG (AP) — Workers who assemble Apple Inc.'s new iPhone have walked out of their factory in northern China to avoid COVID-19 curbs after some coworkers were quarantined following a virus outbreak. Videos circulating on Chinese social media platforms showed people said to be Foxconn ...

Tucson man convicted in clash over school COVID mandates

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Tucson man who showed up at an elementary school with zip ties and threatened to arrest the principal over COVID-19 quarantine measures has been convicted of several misdemeanor offenses. Kelly Walker was found guilty Wednesday in Tucson City Court of two charges of ...

Shanghai district orders mass COVID-19 testing, lockdown

BEIJING (AP) — China's largest city of Shanghai is ordering mass testing Friday of all 1.3 million residents of its downtown Yangpu district and confining them to their homes at least until results are known. The demand is an echo of measures ordered over the summer that led to a two-month ...

Weekly report: Seven new COVID-19 deaths, 32 hospitalizations

CONCORD – On Thursday, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced 1,467 new positive COVID-19 test results between Thursday, Oct. 20 and Wednesday, Oct. 26. For the previous week, DHHS announce 7 additional deaths related to COVID-19. We offer our sympathies to the ...

Afraid of needles? China rolling out oral COVID-19 vaccine

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first. The vaccine, a mist that is sucked in through the mouth, is being offered for free as a booster dose for previously vaccinated people, according ...