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In many American cities, fear of a “deadly spiral” of public transportation. South Korea reported 166 new cases of coronavirus, the highest number in the country since March.
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The virus in the United States first fell into the pandemic, a sign that the country’s reaction has stalled.
An outdoor school district in Phoenix canceled plans to reopen schools next week after teachers made a “sick outing” in protest.
“We won the highest number of absences on Monday for fitness and protection reasons,” said Gregory A. Wyman, J.O. Superintendent. The Combs Unified School District said in a letter to families posted online on Friday.
The staff”s “overwhelming response” has cried out plans to start the semester, and the district “still can’t verify when education can resume in person,” Wyman said. Virtual categories have also been cancelled for the time being, breakfasts and lunches can be picked up.
The Olympics. The Combs School District, which includes seven schools, according to its website, had a community with a reopening plan despite the lack of benchmarks that the Arizona Department of Health Services said had to be met before face-to-face training resumed. .
While new cases have dropped dramatically in Arizona since a spike in July, according to knowledge compiled through the New York Times, public data released Thursday shows that no county in the Phoenix Metropolitan domain has met all criteria for face-to-face learning.
The uprising that opposes early opening comes after some schools in other parts of the country struggled to open safely and apply cautionary behaviors among students.
An outdoor suburban county in Atlanta was forced to quarantine some 1,200 academics and staff this week after a wave of infections devastated county schools.
While transit budgets in U.S. cities. They have been affected by the pandemic, passengers have endured long waits on reduced service and then boarded overcrowded trains or buses, raising fears of coronavirus exposure.
Transit leaders across the country have issued terrible warnings to Congress, saying the $25 billion in aid they won in March is disappearing. And without further help, they say, their systems will face a fatal spiral, in which service cuts will make public transport less convenient for the public, resulting in an additional decrease in the number of passengers that will result in greater loss of profits and more outages.
But Congress has shown little sign that it will soon adopt a stimulus package or that such an agreement would come with one of the $32 billion in new aid that transit experts consider necessary.
“It turns out we’re invisible and they don’t care,” said Nina Red, a New Orleans resident who said her bus ride to the grocery store took about 3 hours instead of the same time as usual.
Attendance for primary urban networks declined by 70-90% during the pandemic, and sales tax revenues, which fuel the budgets of many transit companies, have been reduced due to the collapse of the economy.
As a result, cities like San Francisco have halved their bus routes. In New Orleans, where 14% of traffic tested positive for the virus, rate revenue fell by 45%.
And while service cuts have begun, experts say most of the challenge lies with the country’s low-income residents, other people of color, and workers. Two economic studies have shown that blacks can die at a rate about twice as much as white coronavirus, partly due to their increased dependence on public transport.
Experts say the increased ability of high-income staff to paint remotely or use cars highlights some other systemic inequality that has become an obvious pandemic.
“People with enough cash can decide to retire for a while,” said Beth Osborne, director of Transportation for America, a advocacy group. “It’s a luxury.”
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