Michigan lifts COVID-19 restrictions, US Embassy in Kabul locked down due amidst rise in COVID-19
After making considerable progress from being the worst COVID-19 hot spot in the nation just 2 months ago, Michigan will lift all indoor capacity restrictions and mask requirements next week. This development comes 10 days sooner than planned amid vaccinations and plummeting COVID-19 infections, with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announcing in a news release on Thursday, “Today is a day that we have all been looking forward to, as we can safely get back to normal day-to-day activities and put this pandemic behind us.”
The state, in April, was in an alarming virus situation that researchers blamed on the U.K. variant with it hitting the highest record for childhood hospitalizations.Now, Michigan’s seven-day case rate has dropped to 18.4 per 100,000 people, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sourced from an internal memo, an urgent and immediate lockdown has been forced along with creating on-site wards oxygen-dependent dent patients due to the considerably dangerous increase in COVID-19 cases in Afghanistan that has gripped the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
“COVID-19 is surging in the Mission. 114 of our colleagues now have COVID and are in isolation; one has died, and several have been medevaced,” says the notice from Shane Pierce, an employee in the embassy’s health unit.The memo also described how intensive care units at a U.S. military hospital “are at full capacity,” prompting the need to set up temporary on-site units for staff who need oxygen.
