NEW YORK – New York City will postpone the start of its school year until September 16 to give teachers more time to prepare for students’ return amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the agreement with unions representing teachers, staff and administrators.Teaching is expected to begin on 10 September.All students will spend the first few days learning at home online before in-person training begins for some students on September 21.
The city’s plan to restart schools includes wearing masks, staggered schedules to decrease the number of students in classrooms, offering to build each school with a nurse, and asking all staff to undergo testing at an earlier time. the beginning of the school year. The town sent ventilation experts to check airflow in the classrooms, and officials said they would make paintings to make parks and streets common spaces if principals were interested.
The president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, said the union’s independent medical experts had approved the reapture plan.UFT delegates were in a position to vote if to allow a strike.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS EPIDEMIC
– The number of coronavirus shows in Russia exceeds one million
– Berlin protesters will have to wear a mask to fight the coronavirus
– In the US Army academies, COVID-19 is the enemy to defeat.
– The pandemic is causing difficult times for farmers and endangering the food security of millions of people in cities and rural areas.
Hong Kong begins mass checks of the virus at a hundred control centers amid public doubts and has some other political focus on semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
– Pope Francis cites the medical, social and economic crisis of the pandemic.He says it’s “the moment of restorative justice” and that rich nations cancel the debt of poor countries.
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HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS:
BERLIN – The director of a German medical laboratory on behalf has criticized proposals to use veterinary and commercial laboratories to treat coronavirus tests.
Andreas Bobrowksi, president of the BDL Medical Laboratories Association, says the ability to conduct more testing is limited by the shortage of devices to perform them, which he says has been “covered by rationing.”
Germany has conducted more than 11.2 million coronavirus tests since the outbreak began and approximately 244,600 positive tests.
Bobrowski said the testing capacity that will be available will also be needed to detect influenza in the coming months and called for other measures such as preventive quarantine and restrictions rather than expanding the number of other people tested.
Germany has about 245,000 cases of coronavirus and 9,300 showed deaths.
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ATHENS, Greece – The Greek government says the country’s schools will want masks and will open full-time on September 14, a week later than planned.
Authorities say the heist will allow others returning from a summer vacation to have contracted a coronavirus during the holidays and take precautions against the spread of the disease.
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas suggested that parents and young people returning from the holidays restrict their social contact until the beginning of the school year.
Education Minister Niki Kerameos said schoolchildren and teachers diagnosed with or living with a coronavirus, as well as others from high-risk groups, will not be able to attend classes and can use distance education.
The government will provide loose masks to all public and personal school academics.
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CAIRO – Egypt has reopened its ancient sites in Cairo and the country for the first time since its closure in March to stop the coronavirus.
The reopening came despite a recent upward trend in new infections.The Minister of Antiquities, Khalid el-Anany, said museums, temples and other sites reopened to 50% of their capacity.
In the ancient southern city of Luxor, French and Ukrainian tourists visited the famous Karnak Temple from the Red Sea hotel of Hurghada, according to the ministry.
Since July, Egypt has lifted the maximum of its existing restrictions against the pandemic, reopening cafes, clubs, gyms, theatres and places of worship.
Egypt’s ministry of fitness has reported more than 98,900 spectators and 5,421 deaths.
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BERLIN – The Berlin government says protesters will have to wear a mask to stop the spread of coronavirus after a demonstration in which thousands of people ignored social estrangement regulations last weekend.
The German news firm dpa reported that the Berlin state executive agreed to make the mask mandatory for demonstrations with more than a hundred participants.There will be exceptions for motor and cycling rallies.
Until now, the mask was sometimes not necessary unless the minimum distance of 1.5 meters between the participants could be maintained.
Police on Saturday ordered the dissolution of a giant demonstration because the participants did not adhere to the rules.Demonstration opposed to masked dresses and other shield measures opposed to the pandemic.
Most of the participants wore a mask at the demonstrations in Berlin, adding a giant Black Lives Matter rally in June and a demonstration of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
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LISBON, Portugal – Portugal introduced its first tactile search application for the coronavirus, called Stayaway Covid, after weeks of delays due to privacy issues and amid dubious good fortune for programs implemented through European governments.
The smartphone app uses Bluetooth generation to locate whether other people have been near an inflamed user with coronavirus and uses a recently developed app programming interface through Apple and Google.
Health Minister Marta Feared said at the launch of the app tuesday that she was “voluntary, confidential and trustworthy.”
The developers of INESC TEC claim that the application has no non-public data.
But the D3 – In Defense of Digital Rights Association, a non-profit organization in Portugal, says public data on the application code is incomplete.He also asked for the code that shows how Apple and Google use knowledge to make it public.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Schools in much of Bosnia have reopened due to restrictions on coronaviruses and despite the large number of new infections daily.
The Republika Srpska, a part of the Serbian-dominated part of the country, has to open primary and secondary schools altogether.In the Bosnia-Croatian Federation, which includes the capital Sarajevo, the government has opted for a combined approach, combining online courses with classic courses.
Although less affected by coronavirus than the largest countries in Western Europe, Bosnia has reported more than 19,000 cases to date and nearly six hundred showed deaths.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Finnish fitness government says 900,000 others have downloaded a coronavirus tracking app a day after its launch.
The Koronavilkku app aims to locate whether a user has been exposed to coronavirus, according to the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare.It says the loose app created to help break the infection chains.App users send randomly generated code via Bluetooth to others when they are in close contact.
“The Koronavilkku cellular app is a component of the government’s testing, traceability, isolation and solution strategy,” said the Ministry of Health’s permanent secretary, Kirsi Varhila.
The app has been in Finnish and Swedish, the two official languages of the Nordic country, and an English edition is scheduled for the end of this year.
Finland has recorded more than 8,000 and reported 335 deaths.
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PRAGUE – The Czech Republic has the new school year, so it is mandatory to wear a mask again on public transport.
The health government has argued that this measure may only involve the coronavirus pandemic, as only about 1.4 million number one and high school academics use public transport every day of the week.
The masks are also at Prague International Airport, government and state offices, clinics and pharmacies from Tuesday.
Strict hygiene measures have been implemented in schools, but the government has overturned its initial order for everyone to wear protective masks in school buildings.
Face masks have only been in schools in Prague, one of the hardest-hit areas in the Czech Republic, with nearly forty-five people more inflamed equivalent to 100,000 inhabitants.
Education Minister Robert Plague said about 20 of the approximately 12,000 schools remained closed because teachers were quarantined.
Czech schools were closed on 11 March and some of them reopened partially at the end of May on a voluntary basis.
The Czech Republic recorded 24,618 cases of COVID-19, 424 deaths, according to government figures.
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BEIJING – Children returned to school on Tuesday in central China’s Wuhan city, the home’s epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak that has been on lockdown for months but has noticed new cases of local transmission in weeks.
State media reported that 1.4 million young people in 2,842 kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools are a component of a return to national school.
Life has largely returned to general in Wuhan, where the new expired coronavirus was first detected last year.After what critics called an attempt to forget about the outbreak, the city underwent a 76-day blockade in which citizens were confined to their homes.and box hospitals were opened to help an overworked medical system.
Wuhan marked a milestone on Sunday when his most recent case, a patient who brought the virus from abroad, was discharged from a city hospital.
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MOSCOW – The number of cases shown of coronavirus in Russia exceeded one million on Tuesday, and the government reported 4729 new cases. Russia has the fourth number of cases in the world after the United States, Brazil and India.
Experts say the actual number of victims of the pandemic is much higher than all reported figures, due to limited evidence, minor cases omitted and cover-up of cases by some governments, among other factors.maximum portions of the country.
Last month, the Russian government announced the approval of the first coronavirus vaccine, a resolution Western experts found with skepticism and unease when the injections were tested on a few dozen people.Last week, officials announced the start of complex trials of the vaccine in 40,000 people.
It is not clear that vaccination of at-risk equipment, such as doctors and teachers, announced earlier this year will be part of the trials or carried out in parallel.
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LONDON – Hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren are returning to school, and the country is nervously watching as the reopening of schools leads to an increase in coronavirus infections.
Tuesday marks the beginning of the quarter for about 40% of schools in England and Wales, and the rest will reopen in the coming days.
Most young people have not attended school full-time for more than five months since a national closure was imposed in March, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s passing government says the threat to the fitness of young people with COVID-19 is much less than the threat to their education.well-being if they don’t go back to school.
Schools have implemented measures to touch among children, such as staggered rest periods and keeping students in “bubbles” with their elegance or age group.Facial covers are needed in non-unusual spaces of the best schools in districts with the highest rates of coronavirus infection.
While many parents are nervous, the government says those who refuse to send their children back to school face fines.
Scottish pupils returned in August, so there have been only small and limited school-like outbreaks.
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LONDON – AstraZeneca says that a possible vaccine opposed to coronavirus has entered Phase III trials in the United States for efficacy and product protection.
AstraZeneca, founded in Cambridge, England, says that up to 30,000 adults of racial, ethnic and geographic equipment in the United States will participate in the trial and is funded through sets of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services.
AstraZeneca says the progression of the vaccine called AZD1222 is progressing internationally with complex trials in the UK, Brazil and South Africa.More trials are planned in Japan and Russia.The prospective vaccine invented through the University of Oxford and a related company, Vaccitech.
Meanwhile, AstraZeneca is intended for large-scale production of the vaccine.
Oxford Biomedica said Tuesday that it had signed an agreement with AstraZeneca for the “commercial manufacture” of AZD1222.The company says it will set aside capacity at a new production facility in Oxford, England, for an initial era of 18 months, with the possibility of extending the agreement for another 18 months.
Oxford Biomedica says you will get 15 million pounds ($20 million) in reserve fees, plus up to 35 million pounds for making several large-scale batches of the vaccine, if that’s effective.
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PARIS – Millions of young French people began returning to school on Tuesday despite the recent rise in viral infections, as a component of a national experiment aimed at reducing inequality and boosting the economy.
“The virus is still there and we’ll have to protect ourselves,” President Emmanuel Macron said in an Instagram video to the more than 12 million French schoolchildren on their first day back.
He spoke masked. Masks are mandatory during the school day for all students over the age of 11, as well as for all teachers and school staff.
Masks are also mandatory from Tuesday at all French paint sites, as the government encourages parents to return to paintings while searching for infections. France reported 3082 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, below the last few days but still above its European neighbours and well above.the few hundred daily cases reported in May and June, before the summer holidays, caused an additional buildup of infections.France has reported more than 30,600 deaths similar to the virus.
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BEIJING – Chinese academics began a full return to normal categories on Tuesday after two weeks without new cases of local transmission in the country.
About 75% of the fellows had already returned to school and the rest will return from Tuesday.
Reports imply that academics were checked the temperature upon arrival, but regulations on social distance and masking range by region.
Hina’s National Health Commission reported 10 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, all outside the country. China has reported a total of 4,634 COVID-19 deaths out of 85,058 cases since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. , expired last year.
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JERUSALEM – Israel has opened its new school year while facing a consistently high rate of coronavirus infection, with restrictions on the need to verify to prevent the spread of the virus.
Classes begin on Tuesday in much of the country, with around 2.4 million schoolchildren returning to school, but in 23 communities that the Ministry of Health has classified as epidemic epicenters, reopening will be delayed.
Students from third graders onwards will have to wear a mask with elegance.Class sizes for maximum grades will be limited to 18 students.Middle and higher school students will elegantly examine only twice a week, and the rest of the positions online.
Israel has recorded more than 116,000 cases of viruses since the start of the pandemic, totaling 939 deaths.The country experienced a primary peak in new cases after the economy and schools reopened after the national closure in May.
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NEW DELHI – A one-day spike of nearly 70,000 new cases of coronavirus, the smallest buildup in the last six days, brought India’s overall total to approximately 3.7 million.
The Ministry of Health reported 819 deaths in more than 24 hours on Tuesday, bringing the total number of deaths to 65,288.
India reports the highest daily workload in the world for approximately 3 weeks and is the third most affected country, the United States and Brazil, but now performs approximately one million tests each day and the cure rate of viral patients is more than 76%.
Meanwhile, the federal government announced Monday that the country’s parliament would resume on September 14 with strict physical estrangement criteria, and was suspended in March just before the announcement of a national blockade to involve the pandemic.