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LJUBLJANA: Marta Pajek's short animated film Impossible Figures and Other Stories won the Grand Prix of the 18th edition of Slovenia’s festival of...

The American Academy in Berlin has awarded the 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize to General James N. Mattis, former United States Secretary of Defense (2017-2019), Commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, and four-star Marine Corps general.

The CDC now suggests that only children who were within 3 feet, not 6 feet, of an infected student should quarantine, provided they were masked in a classroom. Does the science support this change?

The Austrian authorities’ moves towards banning ‘political Islam’ and criminalising the Brotherhood are ill-conceived.

When kids masks come off, delta is on the menu. nothing is better than universal masking, benjamin says. >> if all of your school activities are outside and people are more than 6 feet apart and youre holding all of your classes outside and all of your lunch outside, then you might be able to get away without masking. >> were right in the heart of back-to-school season. millions of kids started last month, millions of kids are starting this month. and everyone wants to know how to keep classroom...

Duke university, said even though it is early in the year, there is enough data to strongly suggest what works. >> if a school district does not have a mandatory masking policy, and is not quarentining thousands of people by the second week of school, then that school district is very likely being irresponsible as it relates to quarantine and exposure of people at school. >> reporter: benjamin likes vaccine mandates for those in illinois, new jersey, and oregon and washington. some districts lik...

Kids are safe relative to the other schools with those options. >> reporter: school started august 5th in jacks kupts. there are around 6,000 students and 6.4% of them have reported a covid infection, a number he said is starting to trend down, slightly. the medical director of the los angeles unified school district is running a program with a completely different approach from mississippi. >> you have a robust and one of the largest testing programs in the nation. where were testing all studen...

And staff tested were positive for covid-19. dr. daniel benjamin, a pediatrician studying the pandemic school at duke university says even though its early in the year, theres enough data to strongly suggest what works. >> if a school district does not have a mandatory masking policy and is not quarantining thousands of people by the second week of school, then that school district is very likely being irresponsible as it relates to quarantine and exposure of people at school. >> reporter: benja...

And then more recently, pamela, in june researchers in north carolina published a report looking at schools there that found masks reduce transmission of covid-19 even when people were not distancing. whether people were six feet apart, three feet apart, or zero feet apart, masks still worked in reducing transmission. and thats not all that was found in that report, pamela. heres one of the researchers, dr. daniel benjamin. >> it started in the fall, then we replicated the study during the winte...

Во многих странах дети вскоре пойдут в школу — после долгого вынужденного перерыва. Учебный процесс все еще не будет прежним — коронавирус не отступил и требует соблюдения мер безопасности, однако очное обучение объявлено приоритетом. И за полтора года пандемии ученые у...