The White House has said it expects vaccinations for this age group to begin the week of June 20. • North Korea, which is already struggling with a wave of COVID cases, said it has a new “epidemic” of an intestinal disease, the Associated Press reported. As Beijing struggles to contain a resurgence of new Covid-19 cases, the city has rolled out more than 9,000 testing stations to regularly screen people. Ricketts is the son of Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, and the Ricketts family owns baseball’s Chicago Cubs. The U.S. leads the world with 85.9 million cases and 1,012,609 fatalities.

Source: New York Times June 16, 2022 14:15 UTC