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NEW YORK: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled instruction just one week after the start of the new period on Monday (August 17) after positive cases of COVID-19 increased dramatically, which hit the last U. S. school. But it’s not the first time As opposed to the reopening course.
The rector of the university said in a letter to academics published on the campus’s online page that the categories would be conducted online in the future, as well as educational services. August 11 was the first day of the new educational year.
The resolution came after the rate of positivity in COVID-19, the percentage of others examined who had infections, increased from 2. 8% to 13. 6% at the campus clinic, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said in the message.
“So far, we’ve been fortunate that most of the tested scholars have developed mild symptoms,” Guskiewicz said.
Other universities, in addition to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, began the fall semester on Monday with all courses taught online.
Across the country, new instances of COVID-19 have declined for the fourth consecutive week, however, infections remain at peak levels in many states and deaths remain on average 1,000 consistent with the day. More than 30 states have check positivity rates above 5%, and Mississippi, Nevada, Florida, and Idaho exceed 16%.
New York, once the epicenter of coronavirus in the country, has an infection rate of less than 1%, along with Connecticut, Maine and Vermont. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday that gyms could reopen starting next week.
In total, more than 170,000 people have died in the United States as a result of the disease, according to a Reuters count.
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Across the country, many elementary, secondary, secondary, and school schools that were scheduled to begin the new period in August or September imposed “distance learning,” while teacher unions opposed teaching.
An Arizona school district canceled plans to reopen schools on Monday after several were called sick.
“We all need to get back to work,” said Marisol Garcia, vice president of the Arizona Education Association. “We need to be in a classroom, we have to be in front of our young people, we need things to go back to but this school that parents must send their children to still exists,” he told Reuters.
In Georgia, a third high school in Cherokee County closed its doors for categories in person, the county school district said, resulting in an increase in the number of positive cases and nearly a third of quarantined academics. a Sunday that postponed the scheduled start of face-to-face categories from Monday to 31 August.
Cherokee County schools appeared in the national media this month after academics posted photographs on social media featuring students grouped in a combination in the hallways, many of whom were dressed in masks.
New cases in Georgia have dropped from their peak, however, the state reported more than 20,000 new infections last week and a 12% positivity rate, suggesting more undetected cases in the community.
A Nebraska school district said Saturday that it canceled categories after 3 members tested positive and another 24 were quarantined by exposure.
Oklahoma school district officials learned that a high school student attended the first day of elegance on Thursday, even though the student tested positive and did not complete the 10-day quarantine.
“While talking to the student, they said they were asymptomatic, so they imagined five days of quarantine,” He told Reuters Dawn Jones, a public data officer at Moore Public Schools. The parents apologized for the misunderstanding.
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