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Final touches are made to a window display in a Primark store on Oxford Street, central London, Sunday April 11, 2021. Millions of people in Britain will get their first chance in months for haircuts, casual shopping and restaurant meals on Monday, as the government takes the next step on its lockdown-lifting roadmap. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

Pubs, hairdressers set to reopen as UK eases virus lockdown

Pubs, hairdressers set to reopen as UK eases virus lockdown
Final touches are made to a window display in a Primark store on Oxford Street, central London, Sunday April 11, 2021. Millions of people in Britain will get their first chance in months for haircuts, casual shopping and restaurant meals on Monday, as the government takes the next step on its lockdown-lifting roadmap. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
The Latest: Single-day high for cases in Ontario, Canada
Dr. E. Kwok administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a recipient at a vaccination clinic run by Vancouver Coastal Health, in Richmond, British Columbia, Saturday, April 10, 2021. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
Some GOP-led states target abortions done through medication
FILE - This Sept. 22, 2010 file photo shows bottles of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in Des Moines, Iowa. In 2021, about 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication - rather than surgery - and that option has become all the more pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Brazil's virus outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags
Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) workers Gabrielle Carlos, top, and Joao Vericimo, move a COVID-19 patient to an ambulance as he is transferred to a municipal hospital dedicated to COVID-19 in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Official: Chinese vaccines' effectiveness low
Gao Fu, director of the China Centers for Disease Control, speaks at the National Vaccines and Health conference in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province Saturday, April 10, 2021. In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, Gao the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost. (Chinatopix Via AP)
Specialist explains how COVID-19 impacts people with heart conditions
Specialist explains how COVID-19 impacts people with heart conditions
Super Bowl snacks: What a nutritionist wants you to know
Super Bowl snacks: What a nutritionist wants you to know
Local specialist encourages public to get thyroid checked
Local specialist encourages public to get thyroid checked
UndocuHealth: Staying grounded through traditional practices
UndocuHealth: Staying grounded through traditional practices
EU and COVID-19: When a vaccine only adds to the trouble
FILE - In this March 24, 2021 file photo, a woman receives a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, during a mass vaccination campaign at San Pedro Hospital, in Logrono, northern Spain. While some non-European Union nations were speeding ahead with emergency use authorizations for vaccines, the EU's drug regulator moved more slowly - and hasn't caught up. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)
Las Vegas family awarded $29.5M in allergic reaction case
Marchers protest Romania's virus restrictions as cases soar
People protest outside the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Marchers took to the streets Saturday in the Romanian capital of Bucharest to protest restrictive measures to fight the spread of COVID-19 even as new daily infections and deaths rose in the European Union nation. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
The Latest: Lawmakers aim to limit state emergency powers
FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, file photo, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Topeka, Kan. In March 2021, Kelly enacted a law giving legislative leaders power to revoke her emergency orders. Top Republican lawmakers immediately used it to scuttle a Kelly order meant to encourage counties to keep mask mandates in place. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Iran enforces 10-day lockdown amid fourth wave of pandemic
People walk through closed Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Iran on Saturday imposed partial lockdown on businesses in major shopping centers as well as intercity travels through personal cars in major cities including capital Tehran as it struggles with the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in the Mideast region. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
More Black Americans open to vaccines after outreach efforts
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2021, file photo, people wait in line at a 24-hour, walk-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic hosted by the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia. More Black Americans say they are open to taking the coronavirus vaccine amid campaigns to overcome a shared historical distrust of science and government. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Reforms follow deadly year in New York nursing homes
FILE - In this March 21, 2021 file photo, Theresa Sari, left, and her daughter Leila Ali look at a section of a memorial wall after a news conference in New York Sari's mother, Maria Sachse, was a nursing home resident and died from COVID-19. After a deadly year in New York's nursing homes, state lawmakers have passed legislation that could potentially force facility owners to spend more on patient care. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Stalled at first jab: Vaccine shortages hit poor countries
FILE - In this April 8, 2021, file photo, a woman at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, receives a dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative. COVAX is providing vaccines to countries lacking the clout to negotiate on their own for scarce supplies, but in the past two weeks only 2 million doses have been cleared for shipment to 92 countries. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
The Latest: Navajo Nation issues weekend stay-at-home order
Raymond Clark sits outside his home in Teesto, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Teesto workers, health representatives, volunteers and neighbors keep close tabs on another to ensure the most vulnerable citizens get the help they need. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
Biden to rush vaccinators to Michigan as gov urges limits
President Joe Biden speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Thailand faces growing outbreak ahead of New Year travel
A passenger looks out from window on train bound for northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani, at Hua Lamphong Railway Station in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April 9, 2021. Thai authorities were struggling Friday to contain a growing coronavirus outbreak just days before the country's traditional Songkran New Year's holiday, when millions of people travel around the country. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
The Latest: US 7th Fleet: 14,000 personnel fully vaccinated
People wait in line at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, on Thursday, April 8, 2021. Quebecers 55 and over can now get the AstraZeneca vaccine at walk-in clinics across the province. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Duke University to require COVID vaccinations for fall term
Countries worldwide hit new records for virus cases, deaths
FILE - In this April 7, 2021, file photo, cemetery workers wearing protective gear lower the coffin of a person who died from complications related to COVID-19 into a gravesite at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nations around the world set new records Thursday, April 8, for COVID-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections, and the disease surged even in some countries that have kept the virus in check. Brazil became just the second country, after the U.S., to report a 24-hour tally of COVID-19 deaths exceeding 4,000. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)
Shots for shots: New Orleans bars offer vaccines
Siblings find closure a year after COVID-19 thrashed choir
From front left, Wendy Jensen, Joe Woodmansee, Linda Holeman and Bonnie Dawson, the four children of Carole Rae Woodmansee, are joined by family friend Debbie Blazina, at right, Saturday, March 27, 2021, as they clean the headstone Carole shares with their father, Jim, who died in 2003, at Union Cemetery in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., north of Seattle, prior to a memorial service. Carole died a year ago on the same date in 2020, the day of her 81st birthday, from complications of COVID-19 after contracting it during a choir practice that sickened 53 people and killed two - a superspreader event that would become one of the most pivotal transmission episodes in understanding the virus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
No region in the world spared as virus cases, deaths surge
COVID-19 patients are treated in the municipal hospital of Sao Joao de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Italy prosecutors: WHO exec lied about spiked virus report
FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Francesco Zambon, lead author of a withdrawn World Health Organization (WHO) report into Italy's coronavirus response, is interviewed by The Associated Press in Rome. Italian prosecutors formally accused top WHO official Ranieri Guerra of lying to them about a spiked U.N. report into Italy's coronavirus response, revealing private communications Friday that are likely to embarrass the U.N. agency. Emails show that Guerra tried to have one of the main report authors, Dr. Francesco Zambon, alter the data in the report to say that Italy had
Biden's ambitious expansion of long-term care sparks debate
FILE - In this April 8, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. Biden released a $1.5 trillion wish list for the federal budget on Friday, asking for an 8.4% increase in agency operating budgets with substantial gains for Democratic priorities like education, health care, housing and environmental protection. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Flu season hits New Mexico
Flu season hits New Mexico
Study: Students get more concussions in P.E. than sports
Study: Students get more concussions in P.E. than sports
More West Nile cases reported in New Mexico
More West Nile cases reported in New Mexico
Working out while pregnant can make labor easier, expert says
Working out while pregnant can make labor easier, expert says
Get up with Grace: The importance of breakfast
Get up with Grace: The importance of breakfast
Get up with Grace: The benefits of yoga
Get up with Grace: The benefits of yoga
NM requires students to be up-to-date on vaccines before school begins
NM requires students to be up-to-date on vaccines before school begins
New Mexico expands medical marijuana program
New Mexico expands medical marijuana program
Local doctor warns about contagiousness of measles
Local doctor warns about contagiousness of measles
Interactive: Understanding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Interactive: Understanding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Workers demand updates on mental health funding freeze
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