SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California has begun passing programs to reopen in-person training elementary schools as a component of special exemptions approved through counties that have been included on a state watch list due to the increased number of coronavirus infections.
The state did not say how many of them were approved by the state. But knowledge of San Diego and Orange counties on Thursday showed that together, 50 schools had been approved. They are all personal and basically religious, as well as two small public school districts.
Orange County’s acting health officer says he’s involved in reopening, but knows that staying in the house is causing difficulties for young people and parents.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– The growing call for tasks reflects a suffering U.S. economy
– WHO asks for more information on Russian vaccine
– India reports 69,000 new infections in last 24 hours
– Working families turn to grandparents to help young people. As the school year begins for many young people whose parents work, more and more grandparents have become day caregiver roles.
– Two players from the South African cricket team tested positive for COVID-19. Positive tests took position in a team camp with more than 30 of the most productive players in the country.
– As hospitals treat others with COVID-19 and seek to prevent its spread, more and more patients choose to receive treatment where they feel most safe: at home.
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HERE’S WHAT’S GOING ON:
MELBOURNE, Australia – The state of Victoria, Australia’s most affected, is reporting its lowest level of new coronavirus in more than six weeks after two weeks of unprecedented closure of the state capital, Melbourne.
Victoria’s fitness branch reported On Saturday that the state had recorded 179 new infections and deaths in the last 24 hours. This is the lowest number since 131 new infections were reported on July 8. Victoria had recorded 240 new cases on Thursday and 216 on Wednesday.
The state government says the infection rate will have to fall to a double digit or double before the Melbourne blockade is eased.
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ROME – The Venice Film Festival is asking participants of the first COVID-19-era in-person film exhibition to wear a mask at screenings and perform a coronavirus check if they arrive from outside Europe.
According to the rules published Thursday, enthusiasts and the general public will stay away from the red carpet of the festival from September 2 to 12, and spectators will be required to purchase tickets and e-book tickets online to ensure that all other seats remain vacant. Nine gates installed in various locations around venice’s Lido will take the temperature of spectators and the media. Festival-goers will be followed to participate in indoor events to make sure to look for contacts if needed.
Venice is the first film festival to start from the pandemic, and is one of the first overseas occasions that Italy organizes after fitting into the epicentre of COVID-19 in Europe. After controlling infections through a strict 10-week national blockade that ended in May, Italy now faces an uptick in post-summer vacation cases.
The biennial organizers said the rules had developed with physical care officials.
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said he tested positive for coronavirus and had some coVID-19 symptoms. The Republican senator made the announcement Thursday and said he’s quarantined in Louisiana.
His spokesman said the 62-year-old senator had “mild symptoms that began this morning.” Cassidy, a doctor, said in a statement that he had been tested after being informed Wednesday night that he had been exposed to a user inflamed by the coronavirus.
The honorable senator says he adheres to the medical recommendation and advises others he would possibly have come into contact with. Cassidy is running for re-election on November 3.
Cassidy’s announcement came a day after her arrival in northern Louisiana, visiting a veterans hospital in Shreveport.
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OLYMPIA, Washington – Washington will apply to enroll in a federal coronavirus program that offers another $300 per week on unemployment benefits. The Department of Labor Safety said in a press release Thursday that it will seek help from the federal emergency control leadership until Friday.
The program came with an executive order from President Donald Trump after the end of July, an accumulation of $600 in the state’s weekly unemployment benefits. To date, more than two dozen states must accept funding.
The program reduces the benefits of weekly earning to $300 or $400 according to the week, depending on the governor’s election. States are required to pay $100 according to the applicant in order to submit the highest amount, which few people besides Washington have agreed to do. So far, most states that have said they settle for Trump in their offering have selected the $300 version. Some don’t have what plan to take.
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BOISE, Idaho – The number of Idahon citizens applying for unemployment rose 12% last week after 3 weeks of decline. The Idaho Department of Labor said Thursday that it won 3,644 new applications because the recovery of the state of the coronavirus pandemic remained unstable.
The firm says the total number of others affected by unemployment has fallen 7% to 18,772. This is the fifteenth week of consecutive descents since the Idaho pandemic entered Idaho in March and the Republican government.
Brad Little issued a shelter order as infections increased. This order ended on April 30 and the maximum amount of business is open according to existing guidelines. Johns Hopkins University reports that Idaho has more than 28,000 coronavirus infections and 291 deaths.
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PHOENIX – Conditions for COVID-19 in Arizona have advanced to the point where 4 largely rural counties can reopen schools for part-time in-person learning, public fitness officials said Thursday.
The counties that were given green permission to reopen schools for a combination of virtual training and in person were Apache, Cochise, Coconino and Yavapai. Cities in those counties include Flagstaff, Prescott and Sierra Vista. Apache County comes with a component of the Navajo Nation, which is a national hot spot for the virus in the spring.
Arizona’s 11 counties, including Maricopa, which includes Phoenix, and Pima, where Tucson is located, have not yet erased the number of cases, positivity tests, and hospital visits.
Arizona, a national hotspot in June and July, with new endemic infections, nearly packed hospitals and cloud deaths.
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NEW YORK – Pfizer and his German wife BioNTech will take their COVID-19 vaccine candidate with the least amount of side effects in final phase testing.
In an online report on Thursday, Pfizer researchers initially verify the knowledge of two candidate vaccines. Both immune systems were stimulated in the same way and neither caused serious side effects.
But one candidate caused fewer injection reactions, especially in older adults: symptoms such as fever, headache, chills or muscle pain that are transient but unpleasant, Pfizer reported.
Final verification of Pfizer’s leading candidate began when researchers recruited another 30,000 people in the United States and other countries. It is one of the few experimental vaccines controlled in the terminal phase in the world.
It regularly takes years to expand an effective vaccine for widespread use and distribution. U.S. fitness officials expect to start providing vaccines next year.
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PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron has said the country will send millions of academics back to school from September 1, despite the largest weekly increase in viral infections in months.
France’s national fitness firm reported 4,771 new infections and more than 18,000 new cases last week, the largest weekly buildup since April. The increase is attributed to summer parties, family gatherings, and office groups when others return to work.
Teachers and parents are involved in schools not being able to keep the virus at bay. A major teachers’ union asked the government this week to delay the start of the school year.
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LAWRENCE, Kansas – The University of Kansas says the first tests of academics and the return to campus have revealed 89 cases of coronavirus, with a majority in fraternities and soromunities.
KMBC-TV reports that 87 academics and two universities or members tested positive. Return-to-campus access tests prior to the start of activities and courses yielded a 1.25% positivity rate for the 7,088 tests conducted to date.
Tests are mandatory for students, universities, and college campuses in Lawrence or Overland Park through September 7. The university plans specific tests and random sampling later.
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GREELEY, Colorado – Two students from one of Colorado’s top schools tested positive for coronavirus, resulting in the last two weeks of school, just days after the start of the school year.
The Greeley Tribune reports that the Weld Re-8 School District announced the first case shown on its Facebook page and sent an email to parents pronouncing the case at the time.
Fort Lupton High School officials said students were on separate teams on campus with more than 500 students combined, requiring the school to close completely. The school has moved on to distance education and is expected to close on at least 7 September.
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OMAHA, Nebraska.- Thirty-five cases showed that coronavirus cases were reported in schools in Omaha domain during the first weeks of the school year, Douglas County Health Director Adi Pour said.
Seventeen students and 18 schools tested positive. Another 152 academics and professors who had close contact with those who tested positive were quarantined, The Omaha World-Herald reported.
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JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organization has suggested that African governments accelerate the reopening of schools, saying that young people on the continent will suffer prolonged closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHO officials have warned that poor nutrition, stress, increased exposure to violence and exploitation, and teenage pregnancies are among the disorders faced by school-attending academics in sub-Saharan Africa.
Only six African countries have fully openedArray according to a survey conducted in 39 countries through WHO and UNICEF. Many governments have closed as a component of measures to restrict coronavirus transmission. Some reopened and had to be shut down when cases of viruses appeared in Array
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MADRID – The leading coronavirus expert in Spain warns about the increase of infections basically similar to nightlife and socialization of the summer holidays.
The director of Spain’s fitness emergency coordination center, Fernando Simón, said that other young people know they can infect older parents who suffer the most from COVID-19.
“Don’t let anyone get fooled, things aren’t going well,” Simon says.
The Ministry of Health added 7,000 new instances on Thursday, bringing the case to nearly 378,000 that showed infections since the onset of the pandemic. This is the number in Europe.
The total number of deaths increased to more than 28,800, with new deaths.
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ATLANTA – President Donald Trump’s new administration rules that say teachers are “critical infrastructure workers” can simply exempt teachers from quarantine needs after being exposed to the coronavirus and send them back to the classroom.
Staying symptom-free in the classroom, as a handful of school districts in Tennessee and Georgia have already said, increases the threat of coronavirus spread to academics and colleagues.
Many teachers may be required through public fitness agencies to quarantine for 14 days in the event of an epidemic, which may stretch the district’s ability to continue in-person courses.
South Carolina fitness officials also describe teachers as critical infrastructure workers, it’s unclear whether a district asks teachers to return within 14 days.