Tag: Covid-19
Pandemic relief programs still have aid available
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses in the hard-hit arts and hospitality industries were forced to shutter. But drawing from state grant funding, Brooklyn...
R.I. COVID-19 cases rise by 294 with 3 new deaths
PROVIDENCE – Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 294 on Tuesday, with three new deaths, the R.I. Department of Health said...
R.I. COVID-19 cases rise by 316, with 2 new deaths
PROVIDENCE – Confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased by 316 on Monday, with two new deaths, the R.I. Department of Health said Tuesday.
Hospitalizations of COVID-19...
Biden to continue FEMA virus aid for states until April 1,...
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is extending the federal government's 100% reimbursement of COVID-19 emergency response costs to states, tribes and territories through...
R.I. COVID-19 cases rise by 671 over weekend, with 1 new...
PROVIDENCE – Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 671 from Nov. 5 through Sunday, with one new death, the R.I. Department...
Fed’s Powell: Pandemic recession has particularly hurt women
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concern Monday that the pandemic recession has had an unusually harmful economic effect on women,...
R.I. COVID-19 cases rise by 270, with no new deaths
PROVIDENCE – Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 270 on Thursday, with no new deaths, the R.I. Department of Health said...
Pfizer says COVID-19 pill cut hospital, death risk by 90%
WASHINGTON (AP) – Pfizer Inc. said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% in...
At Quonset port, supply chain problems of a different kind
Major ports around the country are jammed with ships carrying products and materials waiting to be delivered to their final destinations, but Rhode Island’s...
Many women have left the workforce. When will they return?
NEW YORK (AP) – There was a time when Naomi Peña could seemingly do it all: Work a full-time job and raise four children...
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