Amazon Delays Reopening of Offices Until 2022 Amid Rise in COVID Cases

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Scottish Government has confirmed 10 people have died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours. The latest figures for Scotland also showed that 4323 new cases had also been identified overnight.There are currently 364 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus with 43 being treated in intensive care.To date 4,085,552 people have received their first vaccination with 3,587,145 having a second jab.

covid cases across the country. Figures have been on the rise in recent weeks, with at least 3,000 cases recorded every day for the last five days and a positivity rate that peaked at 12.4% on Monday.

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pic.twitter.com/4hns87sasbShould've called it Toby-19.He's the most dangerous virus I know. https://t.co/K1KqNcAw86 pic.twitter.com/Rs4lscv5CRThen you’ve got Dwight’s take on the coronavirus.

Daily Covid cases in California hit a new high for the current summer surge, with 14,716 reported on Friday. That’s up 10% from the season’s previous peak of 13,377 on August 9, and up a whopping 159% from the 5,678 new cases the state database now shows for Tuesday. It’s also far above the peak of the summer 2020 surge, which peaked on July 13 with 11,658 cases.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFor the second year in a row, the flagship VidCon creator and fan convention in Anaheim, Calif., has been nixed because of the COVID pandemic.On Friday, VidCon announced that the 11th annual VidCon US event, which had been slated to take place Oct. 22-24, has been canceled.At the same time, VidCon has scheduled the next in-person event in the U.S.

In March 2021, when Americans first began hearing about the Delta variant of Covid-19, breakthrough infections among fully-vaccinated Angelenos accounted for just 2% of that month’s case total. By June, when Delta accounted for 50% of all variants in Los Angeles, breakthrough infections among fully-vaccinated residents had risen to 20% of all identified cases.

California reported 14,099 new cases on Friday, the highest one-day total the state has seen since February 1, 2021. That is up from 10,450 new cases reported the day before, and comes amid a general trend of rising cases and quickly rising infection rates.

While she only had five concerts on the books for 2021, Stevie Nicks has decided to cancel them all, the singer announced on Tuesday. "These are challenging times with challenging decisions that have to be made," Nicks said in a statement.

Scottish Government  has confirmed that 11 people have died from  coronavirus  in the last 24 hours.

Less than one week before the nation’s second-largest school district in Los Angeles welcomes students back to campus, a new study from the American Academy of Pediatrics found “a continuing substantial increase” of Covid cases among children.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentBravo is postponing its fan fest BravoCon to 2022, amid a staggering rise in nationwide COVID-19 cases.In a statement, the network shares its disappointment about canceling the 2021 fan convention. In 2020, BravoCon was also canceled, as all live events were shut down during the global pandemic.“Out of an abundance of caution, we are postponing BravoCon 2021 until next year,” reads a network statement.

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Organizers of the Beijing International Film Festival have postponed the event due to increasing Covid cases in China.

Deadline has confirmed that employees at Amazon Studios are now expected to return to office on Jan. 3, 2022. That’s in line with the rest of the Amazon’s corporate employees in the U.S. and some foreign countries.

The Seattle Times. “We are now extending this date to Jan.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeProduction on the upcoming season of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” continues, even as the network confirms that 12 cases of COVID-19 have been identified on set.According to the Los Angeles County Public Health website, those 12 confirmed positive cases came at Red Studios Hollywood, where “The Masked Singer” is shooting its sixth season, set to air this fall.

EXCLUSIVE: When Covid vaccines became widely available in the U.S. a few months ago, studios, talent agencies, management companies, law offices and publicity firms optimistically embraced the notion that the offices shuttered 16 months ago would be filled with employees again right after Labor Day. Now that the Delta variant has created alarming numbers of virus cases in Los Angeles and beyond, a sampling by Deadline indicates that nearly everyone has put the brakes on their plans.

vaccinated, a leading health expert has said. Linda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, wants to see children given the coronavirus vaccine that has been successfully rolled out across the country to the majority of the adult population.