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6:20 am
The Transportation Security Administration said it had examined more than 1 million people the day after Christmas.
The day after Christmas was the busiest day since the pandemic began. The busiest day came a day before Christmas, when the TSA tested 1,191,123 people.
The daily numbers for this holiday season represent about half of the number of passengers selected on the same day in 2019.
TSA numbers come as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges Americans to stay home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As cases continue to grow following Thanksgiving travel, health experts warn that a similar increase is likely to happen in a few weeks due to holiday-related travel at the end of the year.
Headlines Monday morning
Residents of North Carolina nursing homes and long-term care facilities will begin receiving the 19-month COVID vaccine.
CVS and Walgreens organize the vaccinations, but for reasons of confidentiality, do not first identify the specific locations that will receive the photos.
We know that CVS administers vaccines to nearly 900 facilities in North Carolina and more than 40,000 nationwide since Monday. The group expects to vaccinate up to 4 million residents and staff members.
CVS said it will start offering the vaccine to the general public sometime next year.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 values in North Carolina remain at or near record levels.
To date, more than half a million people have tested positive for the North Carolina virus, with at least 6,549 dying from it. Updated numbers will be released around noon.
SUNDAY
9:00 p.m.
President Donald Trump signs the COVID-19 bill after a delay of almost a week.
The president announced on Sunday that he had signed the bipartisan bill that his own representatives led, but that at the beginning of the week he called it a disgrace.
In a statement, the president said he was signing the bill, but also called on Congress to make changes to it.
12:48 pm
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported 2,898 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 516,828.
The positive daily percentage continues to move in the wrong direction and increased by 1.5 percent, bringing the total to 11.9 percent. The target, as set by NCDHHS officials, is to be around 5%.
As of Sunday afternoon, another 100 people are currently in hospital with COVID-19. For almost a whole week, the number of hospitalizations was over 3,000.
Twenty-three more people died from complications with the virus on Saturday, reaching 6,549.
In total, 6,737,864 tests were completed, up 29,776 from Saturday.
SATURDAY
1:40 p.m.
North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services released new COVID-19 numbers for the state on Saturday for the first time in three days.
The numbers were not released on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
The daily case increases for the last three days are as follows:
December 24: 7,703
Of. 25: 6,345
December 26: 5,371
In recent days, North Carolina has exceeded 500,000 cases in total since the beginning of the pandemic.
Currently, 3,023 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state. The number of hospitalizations has been over 3,000 since December 21.
The positive percentage in the state is 10.4 percent. The goal is to be around 5%.
10:29 am
A criminal from the Nash Correctional Institution, who was diagnosed positively for COVID-19, died on Christmas night, prison officials said.
The 81-year-old perpetrator had numerous medical problems. He tested positive for COVID-19 on December 8 and was hospitalized on December 20.
“We sympathize with the criminal’s family, because the loss of a loved one is quite difficult, but especially during the holidays,” said Todd Ishee, the commissioner for prisons. “We continue to work diligently to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in our prisons, as the health and safety of staff and the criminal population continues to be our top priority.”
9 am
A look at the state’s “county alert system” shows the latest trends in community outreach in central North Carolina.
Wake and Durham counties are in the orange zone – with “substantial” levels of community outreach.
Cumberland County is in the red zone – with a “critical” spread.
The latest update shows that more than 90% of the state is in red or orange areas.
In the last two weeks, the number of counties in the red zone has increased from 48 to 65.
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