CHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday that bands would be allowed to perform at public school football games amid the coronavirus pandemic, which overruled a governing body the day before.
The Republican governor said the previous resolution of the High School Activities Committee had been his opinion.
“As a coach and who is in our schools all the time, I appreciate how much our extracurricular activities, adding our music bands, mean to our students, parents and communities,” Justice said in a statement.
Justice said he had asked medical experts to paint with the SSAC and the state Department of Education to “return to the drawing board to find a way for our bands to do what they love to do: play.”
The plan will require members of the organization to maintain social distances while performing in the stadiums on the fit days. Their families will be allowed to see their performances.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS EPIDEMIC
– The Brazilian president’s son is examined by the virus, the family room
– FDA Commissioner, Hahn: Sorry to exaggerate plasma usage
– New instances of viruses are being reduced in the U.S. And it credits masks
– Virtual learning sites are being created for running parents.
– While many schools remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, public and personal opportunities are emerging across the country to monitor young people in their studies.
– A new ballot from the Associated Press-NORC Public Affairs Research Center shows that 45% of Americans say they are setting more money away than the same coronavirus pandemic.
– The World Health Organization warns that the use of blood plasma by COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients remains an experimental therapy.
– Follow the AP pandemic in http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
MIAMI – The bedrooms are charged with a coronavirus outbreak at the University of Miami, where some academics examined were moved to isolation rooms and two full floors of a residential tower are quarantined.
Other academics were expelled from the university apartments and suspended for failing to comply with public fitness guidelines, said Dr. Julio Frenk, president of the university.
A new university online panel indicates that 156 other people tested positive for the university system. Most are students; 69 of them have been put in solitary confinement and another 94 in the last seven days. The positivity rate is more than 5%.
“It would have been unrealistic if there were no cases of COVID-19 on our campus,” Frenk said in a video message.
Frenk said an infection trend had emerged in one of the university residences. In response, all those who tested positive were isolated and those potentially exposed to the virus were ordered to remain in their rooms.
Similar demanding situations are recently being addressed in other Florida schools, where the Department of Public Health reported 4,545 COVID-19 hospitalizations Tuesday, equivalent to some 2,600 new instances of viruses.
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The University of Tampa starts categories Wednesday, but has already temporarily suspended some academics who participated in a giant demonstration in a college apartment while moving. Florida A-M University imposes curfews for fellows in the apartment. OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City Children’s Hospital patients will be entitled to two guests starting Wednesday, while some adults at the University of Oklahoma hospitals in Oklahoma City and Edmond will receive a guest.
Hospitals have limited the number in recent months in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus. The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported that 54,172 cases showed COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Oklahoma County Jail Trust has approved $3 million in bonuses for county criminal painters who continue to paint the pandemic. That’ll be $1,000 consistent with the painter. Also on Tuesday, the University of Oklahoma announced that prostitutes would be barred from campusing during the 2020 football season.
“In recent years, a typical day of play at Norman has attracted more than 100,000 people to campus,” said Eric Conrad, OU’s vice president of university operations. “While we realize that these decisions will be disappointing for many, it is imperative that the university do its component to curb the spread of the virus on campus and on our network so that we can each other.”
The university also asks everyone on campus to wear masks, adding at all events.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – The Des Moines School District has sued the state of Iowa, challenging a policy that requires districts to organize at least part of their education systems in person in study rooms unless their spaces succeed at an upper threshold for positive coronavirus cases.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday through Iowa’s largest school district asks the court to revoke the state’s rejection of its plan to start the school year with students at home and prevent the state from forcing it to reopen schools “when it’s not certain it will. . “
The trial is also a court ruling that invalidates Gov. Kim Reynolds’ July 17 proclamation that requires the district to return unless they are in counties with higher degrees of coronavirus instances and comply with other Department of Education guidelines.
The trial appoints the governor, state representatives and the Board of Education, the Department of Education, and the Department of Public Health.
The court filing comes when the Ames School District announced Tuesday that it would initiate lawsuits. Last week, the Iowa State Education Association and the Iowa City School District sued, saying Reynolds’ demands were detrimental to academics and staff.
In the Des Moines district, which has more than 5,000 workers and 32,500 students, the trial indicates that more than 31% have underlying fitness problems, 47% have more than 50 and 10% have more than 60. Higher threat of potentially fatal serious cases of COVID-19.
A Spokesman for Reynolds did not respond to a message requesting comment on the trial.
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JACKSON, Miss. Public health officer Thomas Dobbs said one of Mississippi’s top schools announced its closure for two weeks due to a coronavirus outbreak that was forced to close due to a giant “unnecessary” social gathering where social estrangement rules were not followed.
Dobbs said Biloxi high school officials made the “exact right decision” when they announced monday that young people would be informed virtually until at least September 8, athletes and parents.
“If we need football, if we need to have a school, we can’t organize social events that violate executive orders in the books,” Dobbs said at a press conference.
Gov. Tate Reeves said the school made the resolution to close after between a third and a fifth of all students were exposed, a scenario he described as a “learning experience” for Biloxi and other districts in the state. The school publicly announced on Monday that 15 other people in the network had tested positive for COVID-19 and that 324 students had been quarantined.
As long as Biloxi High School is closed, other schools for the younger ones will remain open.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Don’t lick your fingers!
That’s what Kentucky Fried Chicken informed consumers when the company suspended its slogan “It’s Finger Lickin ‘Good” after 64 years, calling it “the top slogan for 2020” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The suspension will involve the use of the slogan in global advertising “for some time,” the corporation said in a statement.
“We’re in an exclusive setting, with an iconic slogan that doesn’t have support for the existing environment,” said Catherine Tan-Gillespie, the company’s global marketing director.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s coronavirus protection measures require others to touch their eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands to reduce exposure to the virus.
For now, the company, which is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, he told enthusiasts to worry.
“The motto will be back, ” he said. “Just when the time is right.”
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CHICAGO – Illinois is expanding its regulations that require a mask when eating indoors, saying that consumers will have to wear a mask every time they interact with waiters or other catering workers. This includes while the servers are taking orders or bringing an invoice.
Needs will take effect on Wednesday, same day, and food inside will be prohibited in two counties due to a maximum COVID-19 rate.
The Illinois Department of Public Health announced On Tuesday 1680 new COVID-19 cases and 29 more deaths.
In Chicago, city officials watching winter have presented the challenge of offering food responses when temperatures drop.
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PHOENIX – A dispute over whether Phoenix-area gyms, bars, movie theaters and water parks can reopen may be questionable until Thursday if Maricopa County’s downward trend continues in cases of coronavirus, the state’s most sensible fitness officer said.
Dr. Cara Christ, director of the Department of Health Services, said she hopes the state’s most populous county will succeed in “moderate” degrees of virus spread that day. This means that gymnasiums that have applied for exemptions from the ministry can reopen even without reduced capacity according to state guidelines.
Arizona, a national hot spot for viruses in June and July, however, new cases, hospitalizations and transmissions have declined particularly since its peak.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. – Gov. Tom Wolf says he has the legal authority to expand Pennsylvania’s moratorium on deportations and seizures after August 31.
This means that tenants will no longer be safe from the loss of their homes for not paying the pandemic rent. In a letter to any of the legislative chambers, published Tuesday, Wolf says the code of the state’s emergency facilities prevents him from acting.
The Democrat called on lawmakers of Republican-controlled General Assembly members to pass a law to enlarge the state moratorium, which has been in place for more than months.
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SALEM, Oregon – Oregon joins the list of states receiving new federal assistance from the unemployed.
According to state officials, if approved, others would get $300 per week for about 3 to five weeks. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 500,000 people in Oregon have been deployed for unemployment.
Last week, Oregon introduced a $35 million emergency check program created to factor a one-time payment of $500 to 70,000 Oregonans still expecting unemployment benefits. Only 3 days later, the program ended after all checks were distributed.
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DANBURY, Conn. – State and local officials are urging Danbury citizens to get tested for coronavirus and respond to calls via touch markers due to the accumulation of cases.
Mayor Mark Boughton, a Republican, said the national and local government was tracked by contracts and intensified in retirement homes and across the network to prevent spread.
The city has also taken other steps, such as asking churches to maintain devout facilities remotely than on the user and delaying face-to-face learning plans in public schools until at least October 1.
The city, which borders New York City, has a moving average of 22 new instances consisting of 100,000 people. This represents an infection rate of about 6 to 7%, according to officials. Statewide, the infection rate is about 1%.
Boughton says there are less than two weeks to slow the spread, in a different way it is an “out of control cargo train.”
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BRASILIA, Brazil – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son says he tested positive for coronavirus and has no symptoms.
Senator Fl’ovio Bolsonaro is the fourth member of President Jair Bolsonaro’s direct circle of relatives inflamed by the coronavirus. The president, the first girl Michelle Bolsonaro and Jair Renan Bolsonaro, some other son, tested positive for coronavirus.
The Brazilian president has downplayed the severity of the virus, arguing against restrictions on economic activity he claims will prove far more damaging than the disease. His approach to the pandemic runs counter to most recommendations by health experts.
Bolsonaro says it is being treated with azithromycin and chloroquine, an antimalarial drug touted by Brazilian President and US President Donald Trump, despite clinical trials that have found it useless or even dangerous.
Several members of Bolsonaro tested positive, adding 8 cabinet members.
Brazil has 3.6 million instances shown and more than 115,000 deaths, the world’s largest moment after the United States.
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MADISON, WIS. – Wisconsin’s state protection order is expected to end because Gov. Tony Evers has the legal authority to order it, 3 citizens from western Wisconsin represented through a conservative law firm in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
This is the first legal challenge to the masking order issued through Evers to help curb the spread of coronavirus after instances began to increase in mid-June. Evers issued the order on July 30, came into effect on August 1 and is expected to last until September 28. The order requires all persons over the age of five to wear a mask inside the house. Violators can receive a $200 fine.
Evers spokeswoman Britt Cudaback accused Republicans and their allies of trying to prevent the governor from keeping other people healthy and safe.
The state has reported 168 new cases consistent with another 100,000 people in the past two weeks, ranking 26th in the country. There are nearly 71,000 cases of coronavirus and 1,081 deaths in Wisconsin.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. Fairfield University is re-checking academics and staff for coronavirus after school officials discovered that some effects of past controls would likely be sent to patients.
Fairfield officials say they will avoid the lab and advise anyone who has ever had a saliva test so that the school forgets the results.
The school says it has brought 35 immediate verification machines from the Abbot Lab and will see members of the school’s network with the effects of swab checks in 15 minutes. The school says machines can process up to 800 checks a day.
Students and have the opportunity to take their own exams from some other provider.
Classes are scheduled to begin on September 1. The school says whoever has a positive test result will be asked to move from home if possible. Anyone who lives more than 500 miles from school or who is unable to return home will be quarantined on campus.
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MILAN – The number of positive results for coronavirus remained below 1000 for the time being on a consecutive day, the number of swab tests was significantly higher.
Italy recorded 878 new infections on Tuesday, according to data from the Ministry of Fitness, up from 953 on Monday. The number of tests carried out in the last 24 hours reached 72,341, compared to 46,000 the previous day.
The authorities have recently closed the nightclubs, which have been a major source of contagion, adding 60 similar cases to a nightclub in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, belonging to former Formula 1 manager Flavio Briatore. Britatore was hospitalized in Milan for the virus on Tuesday.
The death toll in Italy has increased to four, bringing the death toll shown to 35,445.
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TUSCALOOSA, Wing. – Tuscaloosa has final bars for the next two weeks after what University of Alabama officials call an unacceptable buildup of coronavirus cases on campus.
The University of Alabama has recorded 531 cases of coronavirus on campus since the beginning of the fall semester last week, according to the school on Tuesday.
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox announced on Monday the closures and end of bar service at restaurants at a news convention with campus officials.
School officials say there has been an immediate accumulation of cases, especially between fraternities and sororities. On Friday, the university announced a moratorium on and off-campus student meetings.
Maddox says an out-of-control spread of the virus threatens to overwhelm the health care formula and sink the local economy if academics are sent home during the semester for distance learning.
University of Alabama President Stuart Bell says the accumulation of cases is unacceptable. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey praised the mayor and university officials for acting quickly.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Tennessee faces a lawsuit that opposes Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s resolve to allow counties to issue safe orders to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing its authority to demand that others wear masks.
Citizens for Limited Government and Constitutional Integrity, also known as Tennessee Stands, and two other people filed a complaint Monday in the Davidson County Chancellery Court. Lee is the defendant in his role as governor.
The lawsuit alleges that a state law dealing with the governor’s powers in the event of an emergency violates sections of the Tennessee Constitution, adding provisions on the separation of powers.
A recent opinion through the state attorney general cites the law to describe the governor’s ability to delegate assignments in an emergency.
Meanwhile, 4 academics from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville face disciplinary proceedings for non-compliance with safety restrictions.