PARIS – MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday to eliminate spring break next semester in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus.
The University Faculty Senate voted 140-7 to clear the nine-day recess from the spring 2021 calendar and officials said the resolution aims to discourage academics and travel long distances and bring the virus that caused COVID-19 back to campus, authorities said. .
“I realize that it would be difficult to spend a full semester of 15 weeks without interruptions, however, given the vagaries of the pandemic, especially in an incruentous climate when other people are internal and so on . . . I’m an enthusiastic supporter,” said provost John Karl Scholz.
The proposal is born on January 25, a week later than planned. Spring break would be eliminated, but the categories would take place on Saturday, March 27, which is the birth of Easter; Friday, April 2, which is Good Friday; or Saturday, April 3, Easter Eve. Classes would end on April 30, the same day as the existing schedule.
The concept gained a lukewarm reception from some senators and academics. Senator Kurt Paulsen, an urban planning professor, asked why the spring semester might not begin at its normal schedule. Senator John Mackay, a philosophy professor, warned that academics would do it anyway. If the semester is online, academics will join from Florida for a week, he predicted.
Kevin Jacobsen, director of Madison’s shared government crusade for related students, said spring break presented a respite from student stress, which is worse in the spring with internship programs and programs at the end of the educational year.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
CARSON CITY, Nevada – Nevada fitness officials say they expect to see an increase in new coronavirus cases after President Donald Trump held state-round demonstrations over the weekend.
Thousands of supporters, usually without masks, attended rallies at Minden on Saturday and Henderson on Sunday, violating Nevada rules that would limit the number of other people attending public rallies to 50.
The rally in Henderson is trump’s first indoor event since a sand event in mid-June in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Nevada has reported more than 73,800 cases of coronavirus and nearly 1,460 deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil – Brazil’s Supreme Court said its leader the judge had contracted COVID-19 and felt good.
Luiz Fux, who has been on the court since 2011, took up his first position as a striker for José Dias Toffoli, who, 67, will take up the position for the next two years.
The Supreme Court said on a Monday that Fux would remain in solitary confinement for 10 days. Brazil’s highest court meets online because of the pandemic and, although the leader of justice generally presides over hearings in the court’s main chamber, Fux is expected to preside over Wednesday. consultation from home.
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LANSING, Michigan – A Michigan county ordered a two-week quarantine for 23 fraternities and sororities of women and seven giant rental homes near Michigan State University following a coronavirus outbreak that, according to a local fitness official, is becoming a “crisis. “
Mandatory quarantine, ordered Monday, means that students or others living in buildings cannot leave for medical care or must have things that cannot be delivered.
Linda Vail, Ingham County Health Officer, acted two days after urging all MSU students living to be quarantined for 14 days.
He said the epidemic was due to a lack of cooperation and compliance with the component of some academics at the university, which only provides online education. People who deliberately violate the order may face up to six months in prison, a $200 fine, or both.
Since August 24, two days before the categories began, the number of COVID-19 cases in Ingham County has increased to 52%, depending on the county.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina – South Carolina officials say Deputy Governor Pamela Evette was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Friday, but is recovering in isolation with her circle of family members at home.
Brian Symmes, spokesman for Governor Henry McMaster, said Monday that Evette had a sore throat and headache and had been screened for the virus and that she has been staying with her circle of relatives near Greenville since she detected the symptoms on Thursday.
Evette’s positive check led McMaster and his wife to take COVID-19 checks, any of which turned out negative on Sunday. Symes said it was the fifth negative check since the start of the pandemic for the governor and the third for his wife.
Symmes stated that two members of Evette and some of its main security points are also ingilising, but have not tested positive for COVID-19. Evette, 53, and the 73-year-old governor last combined on September 6.
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CAIRO – Egypt says weddings, funeral prayers and cultural events will be allowed next week, in open spaces, for the first time since the government imposed a partial closure this year to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Nader Saad, a government spokesman, said Monday that weddings with a maximum capacity of another three hundred people will be allowed from September 21 at tourist institutions and hotels that have received physical safety certificates.
He said in a statement that cultural events, in addition to e-book fairs, will be allowed in outdoor venues with 50% capacity, and funeral prayers will also be allowed in mosques with outdoor courtyards.
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NEW YORK – This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade has been redesigned for the coronavirus pandemic.
Macy said Monday that the parade will feature floats, artists and giant balloons that will parade along a one-block stretch of 34th Street beyond the retailer’s flagship store in Manhattan.
The screen will be broadcast as usual from nine a. m. until noon, East Time, on NBC, and will come with live and recorded images. Giant balloons will be driven without the 80 to 100 classic manipulators and will instead be attached to vehicles. of the parade’s artists will be founded to reduce travel.
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PANAMA CITY – Panama lifted a five-month coronavirus measure that prevented one day and men from leaving the next.
The rules, erected on Monday, limited the time when other people can necessarily faint and proved to be debatable because they led to harassment and discrimination against other transgender people.
The Minister of Health, Luis Antonio Sucre, asked for caution despite the uprising of the rule, which had been in force since March.
Similar measures have also been attempted in Peru to the number of others on the streets and to curb the spread of contagion.
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PITTSBURGH – A federal ruling overturned Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic restrictions, forcing others to remain at home, imposed duration limits on rallies and ordered the closure of “non-vital” businesses, calling them unconstitutional.
U. S. District Judge William Stickman IV sided with plaintiffs, including hairdressers, drive-ins, a farmers market vendor, a horse master, and several Republicans who have filed lawsuits individually.
Stickman wrote in his resolution that the Wolf administration pandemic was excessive, arbitrary and violated citizens’ constitutional rights.
Wolf has lifted the restrictions since the complaint was filed in May, allowing companies to reopen and cancel a state housing order, but his administration has maintained some capacity restrictions and limitations. A spokesman for Wolf said the administration was reviewing the decision.
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PARIS – Two of France’s largest cities with COVID-19 infection rates that overcome the national outbreak of new cases are reinforcing barriers to public activities as the French government seeks a new national blockade.
The strictest restrictions announced Monday in Marseille and Bordeaux responded to a request by the French prime minister for more action by the two cities to halt the growing number of infections.
In Bordeaux, the region’s most sensible government official announced a ban on meetings of more than 10 people in public parks, along the city’s picturesque river and on the beaches. The new regulations also restrict the duration of giant public gatherings to no more than 1,000 more people. .
To counter the party, Bordeaux’s cafes and restaurants will no longer be to cater to status visitors and will not be able to play outdoor music. Dancing is prohibited in public places, adding weddings. Drinking alcohol in public is also prohibited in Bordeaux, a center of the French wine industry.
In March, france’s largest city after Paris, the regional government also announced a number of restrictions and the cancellation of an 11-day foreign festival.
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ATLANTA – The coronavirus pandemic has interrupted the fight against HIV: in the southern United States, clinics have stopped or limited AIDS testing, and public fitness officials exceeded COVID-19 requests to eliminate HIV patient follow-up staff. .
Progress in opposition to the virus had already stagnated in recent years. Now, experts and fitness advocates fear that the country will back down, with an increase in new HIV infections, as other people don’t know they have the disease, don’t know if their Remedy is working, or don’t get a drug that can save you from getting HIV in the first place.
The factor is a specific fear in the South, which accounted for more than 37,000 HIV infections estimated in the country in 2018 and has been in the midst of the Trump administration’s purpose of eliminating the disease until 2030. Control and prevention, fewer others in the South know they are HIV positive in other parts of the United States
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MILAN – The number of new known coronavirus cases in Italy has decreased in the last 24 hours almost in proportion to the decrease in the number of tests.
Italy reported 1,008 new positives on Monday, the first day in countries at most after breaks of six to seven months, 30% less than the previous day. During the same period, tests fell from 37% to just over 45,000, according to statistics. Ministry of Health.
The number of positives shown has increased slightly in the more than six weeks, basically the tests discovered in returning tourists. Most are asymptomatic, although the number of others in the hospital and extensive care sets is also increasing, with 80 more hospitalized in the last 24 years. hours and 10 more in intensive care. Another 14 people died during this period, bringing the overall pandemic to 35,624 known victims.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovakia imposes restrictions on any of the Czech Republic after its neighbour recorded a record number of new instances of COVID-19.
Starting Friday, travelers to the Czech Republic will be required to have a negative coronavirus that is no more than 72 hours long, or quarantined for five days and ed.
Random checks will be made to ensure that other people meet the requirements.
Exceptions come with students, teachers, physical care staff, some artists and athletes and some others.
The two countries that shaped Czechoslovakia have closer ties to other countries than to any other country.
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LONDON – New regulations avoiding meetings of more than six people will take effect on Monday in England, Scotland and Wales, with the aim of simplifying the rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
But there are a number of exceptions where the public is likely to still find the regulations difficult to follow. For example, the rule applies to pubs but not to schools or workplaces.
The UK has suffered the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in Europe and recorded more than 3,000 new instances of COVID-19 for the third consecutive day on Sunday.
Although an accumulation explains some of the new cases, it is transparent that the UK has noticed that the virus has spread in recent weeks, leading to considerations about a momentary wave.
In an attempt to curb spread, the government has tightened a number of restrictions on life. The London Metropolitan Police are committed to taking appropriate action and said it would take steps to enforce stricter restrictions in the capital.
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WINTER PARK, Florida – Police say a 70-year-old man was beaten after asking a man who wasn’t wearing a mask to practice social estating at a fuel station in central Florida.
According to an affidavit of arrest in Orange County, the two men began arguing outdoors at a Citgo fuel station in Winter Park on September 8. The older man paid for his pieces and left.
The report says 24-year-old Rovester Ingram followed him abroad and started kicking and beating the older man. The Orlando Sentinel reported that the guy returned to the fuel station and Ingram hit him again, grabbed him by the hair and dragged him out. .
Winter Park police showed the account of the victim’s eyewitnesses and security images and discovered Ingram at his home.
Court records show that he is accused of kidnapping/inflicting physical and annoying assault.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment.
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PARIS – A global progression company has said that the world’s 20 most sensitive industrialized countries saw their economies contract unprecedented between April and June amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday that gross domestic product fell to a record 6. 9% in this year’s quarter in the G20 area.
The organization noted that this is “significantly more important” than the 1. 6% drop in the first quarter of 2009 at the height of the currency crisis.
Between April and June this year, GDP fell by 25. 2% in India, 20. 4% in the United Kingdom and 17. 1% in Mexico, and 9. 1% in the United States.
The OECD said China was the only G20 country to expand (11. 5%) in this period. The organization said this reflects “the early onset of the pandemic in that country and the next recovery. “
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NEW DELHI – India reopened its parliament on Monday after more than five months, even as the country continues to report that the maximum number of new coronavirus infections in the world and virus deaths remain above 1,000.
Lawmakers should wear masks and stick to other disinfection protocols, sit in seats separated by transparent plastic sheets and restrict their meetings. Question time will not be allowed when legislators ask ministers questions and hold them accountable for the operation of their departments. .
Opposition parties have opposed Question Time resolution and are expected to question the government for its pandemic management, declining economy, and latent tensions with China.
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YAKARTA, Indonesia – The main streets were less crowded as Indonesia’s capital began two weeks of social restrictions on Monday to curb the buildup of coronavirus infections that has taken its extensive hospital care capacity to harmful levels.
Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced this Sunday the restrictions, which will run from Monday to 27 September, to combat an emergency-described virus epidemic.
Social, economic, religious, cultural and educational activities will be limited, with 11 sectors, such as food, structure and banking, allowed to operate under fitness protocols and 50% of the same workforce as always.
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