Hours before a test site opened at Miami Tropical Park, dozens of cars were lined up. To curb demand, circuit workers distributed 12,500 test kits at home in libraries on Friday.
Most of New York City’s 120 test locations were closed on Saturday, the day after police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood to suppress an angry crowd who expected to be given free home test kits just for the sake of the Having used up supplies.
Chairs at some dining tables became empty after airlines around the world canceled hundreds of flights as the Omicron variant messed up flight schedules and reduced staff.
Airlines around the world have canceled nearly 6,000 flights scheduled for Friday, Saturday or Sunday, with nearly a third affecting US flights, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
At a reception center for asylum seekers in Cyprus, Patricia Etoh, a Catholic from Cameroon, said she had no special plans because it just didn’t feel like Christmas without her 6-year-old child she had to leave behind.
But she added, “We are grateful, we live, and when we live there is hope.”
