PARIS (AP) — France’s prime minister today defended new nationwide measures to combat a resurgent coronavirus in France that include closing schools for at least three weeks and putting in place a month-long domestic travel…

LONDON (AP) — It’s being dubbed Happy Monday, with open-air swimmers donning their wetsuits for the first time in months and rusty golfers doing their best to get their drives down the middle of the…

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Reluctance among certain parts of the population to receiving a vaccine is one of the biggest risks to coronavirus control efforts, said President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser. “I just don’t get…

Since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged one year ago, many of those who have been affected have shared their personal stories with the Register.  We’ve heard from those who became seriously ill, business owners concerned they…

TOPEKA — After 412 days of monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic, Kansas health secretary Lee Norman is still “harping,” as he puts it, on the importance of keeping yourself safe. Yes, things are getting better, he…

Prom will go on. All of Allen County’s schools plan to offer prom this year, after last year’s events were either canceled or smaller events were organized by parents. The proms will feature a few…

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci says if a coronavirus vaccine is available, regardless of which one, take it. The top U.S. infectious disease expert told NBC this morning a third vaccine becoming available “is nothing…

HUMBOLDT —The Humboldt school board voted Thursday night to modify the district’s COVID-19 policies. The changes do not include modifying the quarantine policy, but instead alters the way that the quarantine list is devised. Those…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is likely to have pockets of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom, and public health officials believe it could become the state’s dominant strain,…

Hold on to that mask — it’s way too soon to ease mandates requiring face coverings, the new head of the CDC said Sunday. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky…