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Chula Vista resident Giovanna Huerta puts a swab up her nose for a COVID-19 test.

Local

New variants add challenges to latest COVID-19 wave

Andrew Bracken

Harrison Patiño

Coronavirus expert talks about what new subvariants could mean for a San Diego entering a highly-anticipated summer season.

Mason Aiken, 9, sits across from his mother, Monica Aiken, while waiting to receive a COVID-19 booster shot at a vaccine clinic at La Mirada Academy in San Marcos in March 2022.

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San Diego County COVID-19 vaccine clinics now accept more forms of ID

Sofia Mejias-Pascoe / inewsource

The change comes after inewsource reported that people without photo IDs were denied COVID-19 vaccines.

Syringes filled with the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine were prepared for use at a vaccination center in Berlin, Germany, in February. Soon the vaccine could become available in the U.S.

National

Novavax's COVID vaccine nears the finish line

Rob Stein

The Novavax vaccine appears to be about 90% effective at preventing mild, moderate and severe COVID-19, Food and Drug Administration scientists say in an analysis of the company's data.

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Number of COVID-19 cases on rise in San Diego County as summer approaches

City News Service

On Thursday, 1,620 new infections were reported — the most since early February.

FILE - Ilana Diener holds her son, Hudson, 3, during an appointment for a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial in Commack, N.Y. on Nov. 30, 2021. On Thursday, April 28, 2022, Moderna asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward potentially opening shots for millions of tots by summer.

National

White House: 1st shots for kids under 5 possible by June 21

Zeke Miller / Associated Press

Shipments to doctors’ offices and pediatric care facilities would begin soon after FDA authorization, with the first shots possible the following week.

Female community health care workers protest in New Delhi, India, in August 2020. The women are part of a government program called Accredited Social Health Activists — and are demanding higher pay and better working conditions. In May, the program won an award from the World Health Organization.

International

These female health-care workers won a huge WHO honor. They'd like a raise, too

Sushmita Pathak

India's all-female task force of community health-care workers won the World Health Organization's Global Health Leaders Awards. But instead of recognition, some want a better salary and benefits.

Students at Nicoloff Elementary have early dismissal Wednesday wearing masks now mandated indoors and out by the South Bay Union District, San Ysidro, CA, June 1, 2022.

Local

South Bay COVID mask mandate returns as the school year ends

M.G. Perez

The South Bay Union School District reinstated the COVID mask mandate for all staff and students on campus.

An undated artist rendering of the coronavirus.

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San Diego County's COVID-19 hospitalizations increase by 13

City News Service

A Vons supermarket in San Diego County offers COVID-19 vaccines on March 21, 2022.

Local

San Diego rises to CDC's 'medium' COVID-19 risk level as cases increase

Matt Hoffman

San Diego's pandemic risk level changes from "low" to "medium" as hospital admissions and new cases are ticking up.

Students of the Pyongyang Jang Chol Gu University of Commerce in North Korea undergo temperature checks before entering the campus. The country said there were no cases — until May 12.

National

North Korea says its COVID outbreak is now under control. But is it?

Anthony Kuhn

After saying there were no cases, officials on May 12 announced an outbreak. But without an adequate supply of tests, some say North Korea is "flying blind." And it still doesn't have vaccines.