The NHL is following other leagues and the CDC by cutting COVID-19 isolation times to five days under certain conditions and where it is allowed by local laws.
The Holiday Bowl has become the fifth postseason college football game to be canceled. UCLA was forced to pull out just hours before kickoff because of COVID-19 issues with the team.
The State of Texas is informing residents that the state has run out of the monoclonal antibody treatment, a key treatment in the fight against COVID-19 illness.
Top-ranked Alabama arrived for their playoff semifinal game at the Cotton Bowl. The Crimson Tide were without offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien or offensive line coach Doug Marrone
Late Monday evening, the UTEP women's basketball team announced that their away game against NM State on Wednesday would be postponed due to multiple positive COVID-19 cases, along with subsequent contact tracing in the program.
The World Health Organization has convened a technical group of experts to decide whether the new variant warrants being designated a variant of interest or a variant of concern.