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The Food and Drug Administration has granted an emergency authorization for a new saliva from tripping over the virus.
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 re-reopening complex 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 the United States faces an alarming drop in the coronavirus that threatens to undermine national surveillance efforts, the Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency approval for a new saliva-based check to detect the virus.
The new test, SalivaDirect, evolved through researchers at Yale University with some of the investment coming from N.B.A. and the National Basketball Players Association, the university announced Saturday in a press release. The method, he said, is being validated by asymptomatic N.B.A. tests. players and staff.
SalivaDirect is not the first control of its kind to get F.D.A. – a lab affiliated with Rutgers University obtained an emergency approval in May for a similar verification.
Public fitness officials have been saying for months that, in the face of the pandemic, the United States still wants to increase global control, perhaps up to 4 million more people a day, many of whom are asymptomatic. But reported daily checks have had a downward trend for much of August and the shortage of checks has remained widespread in many states.
According to the press release, investigators said they developed the check to obtain affordable prices, such as cost-cutting tactics, for example, eliminating the need for costly sampling tubes. They said they were hoping the labs would simply administer the check for about $10 according to the sample, contributing to some other check that could help combat the recent slowdown in checks.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Saturday that there were “signs of hope” that the virus had fallen to its point in the country and announced relief from some of the world’s strictest lockout restrictions.
In a televised speech, Ramaphosa said the number of new cases shown had been reduced in the following week to around 5,000 cases per day, compared to around 12,000 per day.
“All indications are that South Africa has reached the highest sensitivity and has passed beyond the tipping point of the curve,” he said, adding that the infections peaked probably peaked in the 3 most populous provinces, adding Gauteng, the headquarters of the economic capital. Johannesburg.
The country will now move on to the so-called point 2 alert at midnight on Monday, meaning that bans on the sale of tobacco and alcohol will be abolished, will be allowed between provinces and bars, restaurants and taverns will resume their general activities, subject to strict hygiene rules, Ramaphosa said. Meetings of up to 50 other people will also be allowed.
But the president warned that complacency about fundamental hygiene and masked dress “could lead to a resurgence of infections at a much greater rate and scale than seen so far.”
First, businesses and schools closed for five weeks after a giant blockade was announced in March. But cases increased after restrictions eased, leading South Africa to fifth place in the world. On Saturday, the Ministry of Health said that another 583,653 people had tested positive so far and that 11,667 had died.
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