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Clio Area Schools drops mandatory mask policy with fewer COVID-19 cases

[ad_1] CLIO, MI — Clio Area Schools students will now have the option to take their masks off after the Board of Education voted to remove the requirement from grades K-12. The school district moved from 155 positive COVID-19 cases and more than 600 probable cases two weeks ago to now just 22 confirmed COVID-19 […]

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Queensland's COVID-19 plan for schools has been released. Here's what you need to know about mask and testing requirements

Queensland’s COVID-19 plan for schools has been released. Here’s what you need to know about mask and testing requirements

[ad_1] Children in Queensland won’t need to be regularly tested for COVID-19 when they return to school next Monday. That’s one of the main points of the government’s back-to-school plan, which covers the first four weeks of the new school year, from February 7 to March 4. The plan includes new protocols for wearing masks, and what […]

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Covid-19 Omicron: Schools reopening to mask mandates, ventilation issues

Covid-19 Omicron: Schools reopening to mask mandates, ventilation issues

[ad_1] Omicron is the new variant of Covid-19, first detected in South Africa in November 2021. Video / NZ Herald By Tom Kitchin of RNZ Many schools and kura across the nation will be starting back for the year today, but it will be unlike anything they have faced before. Staff are battling with how […]

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Newton Passes Omicron Peak, Schools and Newton-Wellesley Hospital Reflect Trend

Newton Passes Omicron Peak, Schools and Newton-Wellesley Hospital Reflect Trend

[ad_1] January 30, 2022    Updated January 30, 2022 at 2:33 pm The City of Newton reported fewer COVID-19 cases during the week of Jan. 20 to 26 than in previous weeks, suggesting that the Omicron peak may have passed in the city. Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller outlined several figures that suggest that the variant is beginning […]

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Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk speaks at a media conference in Brisbane

Queensland records another 13 COVID-19 deaths, schools to resume with mask mandate

[ad_1] Another 13 people in Queensland have died from COVID and 8,580 new cases have been recorded, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says. There are now 745 people in hospital with the virus and 41 of those patients are in intensive care units. Queensland COVID-19 snapshot In latest reporting period: Deaths: 13 New cases: 8,580 Queensland’s vaccine rollout (percentage of those aged 16+): First dose: 92 per cent […]

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COVID-19 surge forces Ann Arbor Public Schools to suspend more bus routes

COVID-19 surge forces Ann Arbor Public Schools to suspend more bus routes

[ad_1] ANN ARBOR, Mich. – An ongoing shortage of bus drivers and sickness among staff has led to the temporary suspensions of 14 bus routes serving Ann Arbor Public School students, the district announced. The change will start Monday and extends until Monday, Feb. 11. Here’s which routes will be suspended: 33 Pattengill/Tappan 38 Pittsfield/Huron […]

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Vaccines for children offered as Omicron spreads through South Mississippi schools

Vaccines for children offered as Omicron spreads through South Mississippi schools

[ad_1] GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) – The omicron variant of COVID has been rampant in Mississippi schools. Just last week, more than 10,000 students tested positive. That’s almost half of the yearly total for children. “We have numerous adults and children sick,” said Dr. Dimitrios Dimitriades, Director of Family Medicine at Memorial Hospital at Gulfport. “It’s […]

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COVID-19 pandemic: When will schools stop requiring masks? / Opinion

COVID-19 pandemic: When will schools stop requiring masks? / Opinion

[ad_1] Something curious is happening around the COVID-19 conversation. Within a 24-hour period on Thursday and Friday, liberal bastions in the mainstream media have decided Americans can begin considering the possibility that COVID will be declared endemic. And pieces about the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions in schools and in everyday life were published in the […]

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