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New Covid case numbers track week over week across Solano Daily Republic Staff
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FAIRFIELD — The state of the Covid-19 pandemic remained roughly stable week over week, Solano Public Health reports on its coronavirus dashboard. Solano County recorded 267 new Covid-19 cases from Jan. 26 through Thursday. The previous week saw 257 new coronavirus cases reported. There were 328 active cases Thursday. The number of deaths attributed at least in part to Covid-19 remains unchanged at 441. A total of 21 people with the disease were hospi-
talized. Many of those are hospitalized with other ailments but have also tested positive for Covid-19 – now a consistent trend. Solano County’s public health officer, Dr. Bela Matyas, has previously indicated Covid-19 case counts are likely much higher with the use of in-home testing, results of which are not generally reported to government agencies and in many cases are not shared with medical providers if medical treatment is not needed. He has also said the availability of vaccines and changes to personal behavior have slowed the disease throughout the Bay Area.
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FAIRFIELD — Organizers behind the proposed Pacific Flyway Center reported Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a provisional permit for the initial phase of the $75 million ecological and educational preserve in the Suisun Marsh. The Pacific Flyway Fund has filed for grading and building permits from the city, and has applied for its Regional Water Quality Control Board permit. Project representatives were scheduled to meet this week with See Flyway, Page A8
Northern shovelers paddle near the Goodyear Slough in Benicia, Wednesday.
Lackluster earnings reports show Big Tech’s golden age is fading The Washington Post SAN FRANCISCO — In Silicon Valley, it felt like the boom times would never end. The Big Tech companies that won dominance of the internet brought in billions of dollars a year, spending it on eye-popping salaries, gleaming offices and constant acquisition of smaller companies. But the past year of rising interest rates and falling stock prices has shaken the industry, along with the San Francisco
Bay region it dominates. Now, tens of thousands of layoffs from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and dozens of other companies have made it clear: The golden age is over. Speeches about austerity have replaced the free-flowing stock grants and free sushi lunches. Apple, Amazon and Google parent Alphabet – among the biggest drivers of the West Coast economy – all announced their year-end earnings on Thursday. The reports were widely anticipated by Wall Street analysts
and investors, who have been pushing the companies to cut costs. Alphabet and Amazon are both still growing, but at much slower rates than they have in the pa st. Apple’s revenue was 5% lower than the same time last year. In conference calls and comments posted online, Amazon and Alphabet’s chief executives both stressed that their companies are still working to cut costs. “We’re on an important journey to re-engineer our cost structure in a durable way and to build
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financially sustainable, vibrant, growing businesses across Alphabet,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said. On Wednesday, Facebook parent company Meta called 2023 the “year of efficiency” and said it would remove layers of middle management in an effort to make decisions faster and become more productive, causing the stock to jump more than 23% Thursday. “We closed last year with some difficult layoffs See Tech, Page A8 WEATHER 55 | 43 Partly sunny. Five-day forecast on A9.
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Migrant flows plummet across Texas-Mexico border Tribune Content Agency MEXICO CITY — A month after President Joe Biden’s administration said it was expanding its humanitarian parole program for migrants from certain countries, Mexican officials warn it’s too early to claim success, even as the number of migrants reaching the border has plummeted. In an interview with The Dallas Morning News, Roberto Velasco, a top diplomat and chief of the North America bureau at the Mexican Foreign Ministry, highlighted the
drastic drop – as much as a 97% decline – in the number of migrants journeying through Mexico from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. Biden announced on Jan. 5 that the U.S. government is expanding humanitarian passage monthly for as many as 30,000 people from those four countries. But people from those countries who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally will be turned away. Under the humanitarian program, the See Border, Page A8
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