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Although most of California is still in lockdown, officials are starting to see signs of hope as new cases and hospitalisations drop, the Los Angeles Times reports.
America’s most populous state still has the most cases in the country, but when adjusting for population, other states such as Florida, Arizona, Georgia and Louisiana are doing worse.
The Venice Film Festival is wrapping up the first in-person Covid-era international cinema showcase, with critics, filmmakers and actors cheering organisers for having dared to hold the festival amid a pandemic and for demonstrating how to go to the movies again safely.
The festival’s coveted Golden Lion awards were being handed out Saturday night before a masked audience conspicuously lacking in Hollywood star power, given that coronavirus travel restrictions kept all but a few American productions away, the Associated Press reports.
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