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• Florida’s COVID-19 surge continues, adds 73,199 cases in week The Department of Health reported 73,199 new coronavirus cases in the week ending Thursday -- up 60% from last week’s increase and more than three times the number of new cases seen just two weeks ago. The state is now averaging 10,457 new cases each day. Duval County’s cases went up 6,430 in a week -- the second-highest increase since the pandemic began. The largest per-capita increases in the past week were in Nassau, Baker and Duval counties. !function(e,i,n,s){var t="InfogramEmbeds",d=e.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else…
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• Your Horoscope This Week: July 25, 2021 Our final week of July pulls us deeper under the influence of Leo’s stars with Mercury moving into Leo on the 27th, where the Sun and Mars have already made their mark. There’s a prevailing sense that anything can happen this week. And if that anything is big, blessed, and beautiful? Then so be it. Of course, Mars is bound toward Virgo territory on the 29th, but not before making an opposition to Jupiter in Aquarius the preceding day. An opposition…
• Covid deaths rise by 68% in one week with highest toll since April Infections have been rising sharply, and deaths now also appear to be picking up (Picture: AFP/REX)Covid deaths in England and Wales have risen by 68% in a week, as infections continue to soar. A total of 183 deaths in both countries in the week ending July 9 mentioned the virus on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is the highest total since the 205 coronavirus deaths in the week to April 30. It comes…
• How I Do It: ‘I’m sex educator and married mother of two – here’s a week in my sex life’ ‘Sunday is by far my favourite day of the week because it is the only opportunity we have for morning sex…’ (Picture: Myles Goode)For today’s instalment of How I Do It, we get a peek into a week in the sex life of Jessica, a 38-year-old desire and intimacy coach and sex educator. Jessica has been married for 16 years to her first love – a guy she started dating when she was 17 – and they have two children…
• New drone footage shows deadly floods devastating China's "iPhone city" People wade across a flooded street following heavy rains which caused flooding and claimed the lives of at least 33 people earlier in the week, in the city of Zhengzhou in China's Henan province on July 23, 2021. Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images This week deadly floods hit China's Henan province, killing at least 33 people. New footage shows the flooding in Zhengzhou, home to the world's largest iPhone-assembly plant. The extreme flooding in Europe and China is…
• Temperatures could get even hotter this week as lockdown rules end It was the hottest day of the year in England and Wales on Sunday (Picture: Getty Images)The scorching hot weather is set to continue across the UK as millions in England celebrate the lifting of nearly all Covid restrictions. Tens of thousands of sun-hungry Brits flocked to beaches to mark the hottest day of the year in England and Wales on Sunday. A temperature of 31.6C was recorded in Heathrow – topping the 30.3C recorded in Coton in the Elms,…
• LeBron James Is This Week’s Marvel as ‘Space Jam’ Beats ‘Black Widow’ Leading this weekend’s box-office results is a single question: Exactly what is the impact of home platforms on theatrical grosses? “Space Jam: A New Legacy” (Warner Bros.) and “Black Widow” (Disney) – the #1 and #2 films this weekend – both can be seen at home, although in very different ways. “Space Jam,” as with all Warners releases this year, is free for HBO Max subscribers from its first week. “Widow” costs $29.99 to view, and then only for Disney+…
• Greater Jacksonville driving Florida’s COVID-19 surge Florida’s number of coronavirus cases diagnosed last week -- 45,449 -- is nearing the increases seen in last summer’s spike. That week-to-week growth rate of infections is the highest the state has seen since June 2020. Nearly one-in-five of the nation’s new COVID-19 infections is from Florida, White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients said at a briefing. The rate in Jacksonville and three nearby counties are even higher, leading the state in new infections per capita and surpassing the increases…
• Pfizer vaccine’s immunity ‘sweet spot’ is eight weeks between doses Government-funded research into the Pfizer jab supports the UK’s decision to offer a long gap between doses (Credits: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)New research into the Pfizer jab supports the UK’s decision to narrow the gap between vaccine doses from 12 to eight weeks, scientists have said. The interval offers a ‘sweet spot’ for both a strong immune response and protecting the public against the fast-spreading Delta variant, they said. The ‘Pitch’ study, funded by the Government, found a 10-week…