Tue, 21-Oct-2025

U.S. sees record high of overdose deaths amid pandemic: NYT

US COVID-19 pandemic deaths

NEW YORK: More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the yearlong period ending in April, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing provisional figures from the National Center for Health Statistics. It is for the first time the number of overdose deaths in the United States has surpassed 100,000 a year after increasing … Read more

US CDC says, ‘Masks not mandatory for fully vaccinated people’

US CDC says, ‘Masks not mandatory for fully vaccinated people’

The Authorities in the United States (US) announced that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks. According to the media reports, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that fully vaccinated people can avoid wearing masks both for indoors and outdoors. In its latest guidelines, the CDC said fully vaccinated … Read more

Father of Muslim US Representative Ilhan Omar dies due to COVID-19

Ilhan

Father of Somalia-born US Representative Ilhan Omar succumbed to the complications from the novel coronavirus. The Minnesota congresswoman tweeted: “It is with tremendous sadness and pain to say goodbye to my father,” “No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew and loved him.” Omar and her father Nur Mohamed came … Read more