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Pediatricians say cases in children in the United States have risen by 32 percent from about two weeks ago, amid a rush to inoculate them ahead of the winter holiday season.

pediatricians say Covid cases in children are on the rise.

At least 210 coronavirus cases are linked to a South Korean religious settlement.

Coronavirus cases in children in the United States have risen by 32 percent from about two weeks ago, a spike that comes as the country rushes to inoculate children ahead of the winter holiday season, pediatricians said.

More than 140,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus between Nov.

4, according to a statement on Monday from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.

These cases accounted for about a quarter of the country’s caseload for the week, the statement said.

Sean O’Leary, the vice chair of the academy’s infectious diseases committee, said in an interview on Monday night.

Children have accounted for a greater percentage of overall cases since the vaccines became widely available to adults, said Dr.

Though children are less likely to develop severe illness from Covid than adults, they are still at risk, and can also spread the virus to adults.

At the end of October, about 8,300 American children ages 5 to 11 have been hospitalized with Covid and at least 172 have died, out of more than 3.2 million hospitalizations and 740,000 deaths overall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

O’Leary said that he was especially concerned about case increases in children during the holiday season.

In May, the federal government recommended making the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine available to children ages 12 to 15.

All of the data so far indicates that the vaccines are far safer than a bout of Covid, even for children.

What was not expected was a series of tough government restrictions.

In today’s edition of the Morning newsletter, David Leonhardt examines the recent increase in Covid-19 cases in the United States as Thanksgiving approaches.

Covid cases during November.

But for older people, especially those in their 80s and 90s, Covid presents a real risk even after vaccination.

The Transportation Security Administration said it expected to screen about 20 million passengers at airports in the 10 days that began Friday, a figure approaching prepandemic levels.

Delta Air Lines and United Airlines both said they expected to fly only about 12 percent fewer passengers than they did in 2019.

And United said it expected the Sunday after Thanksgiving to be its busiest day since the pandemic began 20 months ago.

France’s prime minister, Jean Castex, said on Tuesday that he had only “mild symptoms” after testing positive for the coronavirus, as the French news media criticized him for apparent past failures to follow the government’s social-distancing recommendations.

Castex had just returned from an official trip to Belgium, where he met with Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, when he learned that his 11-year-old daughter had tested positive, his office said in a statement.

On Monday evening, Mr.

Castex condemned the violence and said the government would try to “convince and assist, individually, humanely,” health workers who are reluctant to get vaccinated.

On Tuesday, the defense ministry announced that it would send 6,000 soldiers to help districts dealing with a spike in coronavirus cases.

The judges ruled on Monday that the latest Covid numbers did not justify the blanket obligation.

The regional government said it found the ruling incomprehensible, but that it would not appeal.

The free-standing Emergency Department at Long Beach, which is part of Mount Sinai South Nassau, said in a statement that patients would be directed to the hospital’s main campus in Oceanside, N.Y., about five miles north.

An ambulance will be stationed at the shuttered facility, the statement said.

But closing the Long Beach branch will allow the hospital to maintain adequate staffing at the Oceanside facility, the statement said.

Mount Sinai South Nassau said it had notified the state Health Department on Friday of the need to close the facility, and had submitted a formal closure plan.

In a statement on Monday night, the Health Department said it was reviewing the plan and working with Mount Sinai South Nassau to “explore options.”.

South Korean officials said on Tuesday that they had shut down a religious facility in the city of Cheonan after 210 of its 427 residents tested positive for the coronavirus this week, an outbreak that comes as the country’s cases surge to record highs.

Officials have blamed the church for obstructing efforts to fight the pandemic by failing to provide a full list of its members to the government.

While cases have surged to record levels in the past two weeks, they have remained relatively low compared to much of the world: 5 daily cases per 100,000 people, compared to 29 in the United States, 36 in Singapore and 159 in Austria.

But officials have said the number of severe cases has imposed a burden on the country’s health system.

Intensive care units have reached 77 percent capacity in and around Seoul over the past week, the director of K.D.C.A, Jeong Eun-kyeong, said on Monday, adding that the agency would continue to work on securing additional beds.

Kim said that these cases have made the settlement the site of the largest cluster of coronavirus cases that the province has ever recorded — and some residents have yet to be tested.

A Massachusetts state judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against two former administrators at a state-run facility for veterans, the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, where a coronavirus outbreak last year led to at least 76 deaths, reasoning that their actions did not lead to the infections.

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