The Daily Populous

Critics have said such rules would be equivalent to a mandate for COVID-19 vaccinations because many workers cannot afford to stay at home without pay.

Vaccinations are not compulsory in Germany but authorities have been taking measures that make it increasingly inconvenient to be unvaccinated.

Germany has fully vaccinated 74% of adults, compared to 72.3% across the European Union as a whole, official data show. »

A Kentucky man is mourning the loss of his 29-year-old fiancé after she spent their planned wedding day on a ventilator before succumbing to a COVID-19 infection that had irreversibly damaged her lungs.

Wendell started off with a light cough, according to Eskew, which would get worse as the day went on.

"She had broken out in stress hives before because of all of the stress of the wedding planning and everything that’s going on. »

Then the message finally came early Sunday: A charter flight would carry the girls and their families from Afghanistan - to where they didn't know.

Robert McCreary, a former congressional chief of staff and White House official under President George W. Bush who has worked with special forces in Afghanistan and helped lead the effort to rescue the national girls soccer team, said Portugal granted the girls and their families asylum.

Wida Zemarai, a goalkeeper and coach for the Afghanistan women's national soccer team who moved to Sweden after the Taliban ascended to power in 1996, said the girls were emotional after their rescue. »

A student earned a blue ribbon for his science project at the Kansas State Fair—as well as a federal investigation.

The 4-H member submitted a bug collection as his entry, which included a spotted lanternfly—an invasive insect that is wreaking havoc across the Northeastern United States.

At the Kansas State Fair, the boy’s entry earned him a blue ribbon, the competition’s second-highest award. »