HuffPost reporters around the world are tracking the pandemic and its effects.
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New York City To Partially Resume Schools For Fall Term– 7/8/20, 11: 05 a.m. ET
New York City City, house to the country’s biggest public school system, will not totally reopen classroom doors for the upcoming fall term due to the continuing risk of COVID-19 New York City Mayor Costs de Blasio made the announcement Wednesday after weeks of argument between teachers, politicians, parent advocates and public health specialists.
Trainees will instead be subject to one to three days of in-person classroom direction, with the rest finished from another location. The city’s whole student body was forced to move to online-only education in mid-March as the coronavirus crisis raged throughout the area.
Throughout the country, schools are confronted with difficult decisions about reopening classrooms. Some elite universities, such as Princeton and Yale, have actually currently announced plans to continue with remote knowing in the fall term.
While there are considerably less COVID-19 cases in New York and the surrounding area than there were at the peak of the crisis, caseloads are increasing in other states, and authorities have voiced concern about a potential revival.
— Sara Boboltz
Boris Johnson Charged Of ‘Trumpian’ Response To UK Care House Row– 7/08/20, 7: 45 a.m. ET
A charity boss who went viral for his attack on U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “cowardly” criticism of care houses has hit out at Downing Street’s “Trumpian” response and refusal to apologize.
Mark Adams, who oversees a labor force of 6,500 personnel helping people with dementia and discovering difficulties, spoke out after Johnson’s spokesman tried to recommend the prime minister was not allocating blame when he stated, “A lot of care homes didn’t truly follow the procedures in the way that they might have.”
The row, which has actually controlled British politics this week, has seen Johnson blasted for a string of federal government failures in the pandemic. Adams informed HuffPost UK that the government’s transfer to clarify Johnson’s remarks seemed like an effort to “bluff” his way through the controversy.
He included that Johnson action echoed Donald Trump’s denial of statements he himself had made, which were easily provable. “I think we have actually had various examples of type of Trumpian revisions of history. I mean it’s typically been other ministers standing up at [the] 5 o’clock [government press conference] patting themselves on the back for a job well done,” he stated.
The U.K. death toll stands at 44,391, the third-highest on the planet.