However, the guidelines leave perhaps the biggest question unanswered: the exact date students will return to classroom instruction. State Commissioner of Education Jeffrey Riley, in an open letter preceding the guidelines, tells school leaders that they will need to prepare three possible instructional approaches for this fall: a large-scale return …
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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, photographed on September 13, 2018. Bloomberg | fake pictures The coronavirus pandemic has placed a great burden on e-commerce giants worldwide, but some appear to have treated it better than others. Amazon has had Covid-19 related deaths, protests and lawsuits. Its closest China …
Read More »More than 8.7 million coronavirus cases went unnoticed in March, study finds
A new study suggests that the number of coronavirus cases in the US USA In March, it could have been 80 times higher and doubled almost twice as fast as originally reported, representing more than 8.7 million cases of undiagnosed coronavirus. The report, led by researchers at Penn State University …
Read More »Trump administration says Huawei and Hikvision are backed by the Chinese military
Flags with the Huawei logo. FRED DUFOUR | AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration has determined that major Chinese companies, including telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies and video surveillance company Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, laying the groundwork for new U.S. financial sanctions. Washington placed …
Read More »Countries say they are unlikely to impose full blockades if there is a second wave, analysts say
People enjoy the beach amid the coronavirus pandemic in Huntington Beach, California on June 14, 2020. APU GOMES | AFP | fake pictures Countries are highly unlikely to impose another full blockade despite a resurgence of new cases of coronavirus in some parts of the world, analysts told CNBC. The …
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