School Reopening News : Summer Vacation Updates
More than 25 million Covid-19 cases have been recorded in the United States since the pandemic began, Johns Hopkins University said Sunday, just days after President Joe Biden's inauguration.
The staggering number contribute to about 8% of the population while the country’s death toll moved above 417,000.
Biden, who has detailed the first national strategy against Covid-19, warned that deaths may reach 600,000 before vaccines begin to create immunity on a large scale.
He has made fighting the coronavirus a priority and is pushing for Congress to approve a $1.9-trillion relief package that would include billions of dollars to boost vaccination rates.
As the global number of coronavirus cases passed 100 million — a quarter of them in the United States alone — an increasingly acrimonious battle between the European Union and British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca over delays in delivering supplies burst into the open Wednesday.
A suspicious package also sent a plant in Wales where the AstraZeneca vaccine is produced into lockdown. Pharmaceutical company Wockhardt UK, which operates the site, said it had partially evacuated the area while authorities investigate, according to the BBC.
The announcement that the coronavirus strain sweeping Britain could be more deadly as well as more transmissible has raised fresh concerns about the variant that has spread to dozens of countries.
Initially British experts said that their evidence suggested the new strain circulating in the UK -- one of several to have emerged internationally in recent months -- was between 50 percent and 70 percent more transmissible.
On Friday, however, the government said the new variant could also be 30-40 percent more deadly, although it stressed the assessment relied on sparse dat
The Prime Minister has announced that it will not be possible to resume face-to-face learning for the majority of pupils and students until 8 March at the earliest.
The Prime Minister has also announced further measures at the border, including the
strengthening of requirements for some arrivals through hotel isolation. We’ll set out more details in due course.
All travel corridors to close and you must self-isolate after arriving in the UK, even if you have tested negative. Most people travelling to the UK from abroad need proof of a negative coronavirus (COVID-19) test result. You need to have taken the test in the 3 days before you travel.
National Lockdown rules apply in England. Stay at home. Find out what the rules are in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
School Reopening News : Summer Vacation Updates
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School Reopening News : Summer Vacation Updates
Shielding has resumed in England. If you’re shielding, do not attend work, school, college or university. You can get support if you’re clinically extremely vulnerable, for example priority access to supermarket deliveries.
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