As California approaches 600,000 cases of coronavirus, the state ordered the closure of a personal school after welcoming students Thursday with a face mask or social estrangement.
The school, with about six hundred students, is now on the state watch list.
Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that the U.S. may suffer a fatal fall if Americans fail to comply with public fitness rules, such as wearing a face mask and staying six feet away.
And in Hawaii, Gov. David Ige is contemplating the possibility of the house remaining in order for Oahu and could delay the start of a program that allows tourists to stop, as COVID-19 instances are higher in the state. On Thursday, the state reported a new record of 355 infections and a total of 40 deaths.
Here are some developments:
? Figures today: The United States has 5.2 million infections and 167,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been 759,900 deaths and more than 20.9 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: Critics say they’re avoiding their duties as frontline workers. But as more and more primary schools see reports of new infections, some of the unions’ horrific predictions are coming true.
Fancy a holiday in Hawaii in September? You may want to reconsider those plans.
Given the immediate increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state, officials are delaying the start of a highly anticipated program that would allow out-of-state visitors to spend a vacation there without quarantine for 14 days by submitting a negative COVID-19 test, Hawaii Governor David Ige said at a press convention Thursday night.
The program, announced in June, is scheduled to begin on September 1. It was already delayed once, a month ago, due to the accumulation in instances on the mainland and in Hawaii.
“If things don’t get better, we won’t have a selection to see any more restrictions yet,” Ige said.
– Dawn Gilbertson
Cinemas in Mexico City reopened this week after the end of 4 months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Temperatures for film buffs are controlled at the entrance. Guests are required to wear a mask and can only lift it for eating or drinking. And no more than two other people can sit next to each other.
California ordered the closure of a personal school after it reopened in defiance of a state fitness order aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. Fresno County issued a physical fitness ordinance on Thursday opposite Emmanuel’s schools in the city of Reedley. K-12 school said to close its study rooms until the county got off the state watch list for two weeks.
The school, with about six hundred schoolchildren, allowed schoolchildren to enter elegance on Thursdays without mask or social estrangement. School principals and the superintendent say students’ progress will be affected if they cannot be taught on campus.
Parties negotiating an invoice to alleviate the devastation of the coronavirus agree at one point: they are at a standstill.
“I need you to see the magnitude of our differences,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said at a news convention Thursday. He pointed to a giant blue poster detailing the big gap between what Republicans and Democrats must pay for priorities. “It’s not unexpected that we have a big difference because this administration, other Republicans in Congress, has never understood the gravity of this situation.”
On the other side of the Capitol, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, condemned Democrats for clinging to a “completely unreal far-left proposal” and to keep negotiations as “hostages” over “COVID-like ideological problems.”
– Michael Collins, Christal Hayes and Nicholas Wu
Many of the largest catering corporations in the United States are grappling with capacity restrictions on indoor food and seek to attract consumers with takeaways in order to make a monetary disaster.
Chain owners like Outback Steakhouse, Applebee’s and The Cheesecake Factory are on a recently updated list of national restaurants that probably won’t pay their debts. When companies default on their loans, they are forced to file for bankruptcy, close sites, or settle occasionally.
One chain, California Pizza Kitchen, has already filed a Chapter bankruptcy claim with the aim of finalizing some establishments.
– Nathan Bomey
While the post-Division I convention postponed autumn sports, the NCAA took the inevitable resolution that there will be no fall championships at the organization’s point in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“We can’t, at this stage, have any NCAA fall championships,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a video interview released Thursday night, adding that the championships were expected to move to the 2021 calendar year.
Emmert said the Higher Council’s requirement that 50% of schools bet on the playoffs would be feasible.
“Unfortunately, tragically, this will be the case this fall,” Emmert said. “That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t and can’t turn to winter and spring and say, ‘OK, how can we create a championship valid for all those students?’ Array… I am absolutely convinced that we can perceive that.”
Eddie Timanus
A frozen bird’s wing pattern transported from Brazil to China tested COVID-19, Chinese officials said Thursday.
But there is no fact that coronavirus can be transmitted by eating or handling food, according to fitness experts.
Health officials in Shenzhen Longgang district inspected imported frozen foods on Wednesday when a frozen bird’s wing surface pattern tested positive for coronavirus, according to a statement from the Shenzhen Bureau of Epidemic Prevention and Control.
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