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                                A home COVID-19 test kit.
Oceanit gets federal approval for home COVID test

More than two years after beginning work on a rapid COVID-19 test, Hawaii’s Oceanit Laboratories has been granted approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell its home nasal swab test and hopes to have it in local stores within the next couple of months, according to the company’s founder and CEO, Patrick Sullivan. Read more

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ASSOCIATED PRESS / DEC. 13
                                Passengers in protective gear are directed to a flight at a Capital airport terminal in Beijing. Companies welcomed China’s decision to end quarantines for travelers from abroad as an important step to revive slumping business activity while Japan on Tuesday, Dec. 27, announced restrictions on visitors from the country as infections surge.
Companies welcome end to China quarantines for visitors

Monday’s announcement that quarantines for travelers from abroad will end Jan. 8 is the biggest step toward ending limits that have kept most foreign visitors out of China since early 2020. Quarantines were reduced last month from seven days to five. Read more

CHINATOPIX VIA AP / DEC. 9
                                An elderly woman gets vaccinated against COVID-19 at a community health center in Nantong in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. The National Health Commission announced a campaign on Nov. 29 to raise the vaccination rate among older Chinese, which health experts say is crucial to avoiding a health care crisis. It’s also the biggest hurdle before the ruling Communist Party can lift the last of the world’s most stringent antivirus restrictions.
China races to vaccinate elderly, but many are reluctant

China has joined other countries in treating cases instead of trying to stamp out virus transmission by dropping or easing rules on testing, quarantines and movement as it tries to reverse an economic slump. But the shift has flooded hospitals with feverish, wheezing patients. Read more

COURTESY ALICE CAMPBELL
                                Art Whistler, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was the third life lost to COVID-19 in Hawaii when he died April 2, 2020, after battling the coronavirus for more than three weeks. He was 75.
Lives lost to COVID-19: Art Whistler of Manoa

The seeds of knowledge that Art Whistler, a world-­renowned expert on Polynesian botany and ethnobotany, planted in life have taken root and continue to grow and inspire others following his death nearly three years ago. Read more

GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                Worshippers adorned three Christmas trees with ornaments as symbols of reflection and healing during Central Union Church’s solstice service, “The Longest Night,” on Thursday.
Honoring lives lost to COVID-19 in Hawaii

As the pandemic stretches beyond its third year, Americans continue to die from a virus that has turned the world upside-down, shaken up the economy and kept people apart. Read more

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                                A nurse gives a COVID-19 test outside the Salt Lake County Health Department, in Salt Lake City.
Kokua Line: Who will help me get COVID tests?

Question: That’s good they’ll be mailing out free COVID-19 tests again, but they should make them more accessible for people with disabilities. My daughter ordered free tests for me last time, but once they arrived I couldn’t use them by myself because I couldn’t make out the instructions because the print was too small. Read more


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