COVID Outbreak at Birthday Party Thrown for Pet Cat Leads to 15 Infections
On 1/25/21 at 7:33 AM EST
A birthday party thrown for a cat has sparked a COVID outbreak after the guests all contracted the deadly virus.
At least 15 people became infected after the celebration in the small coastal town of Santo Domingo, Chile.
Francisco Álvarez, the Ministry of Health s regional secretary for Valparaíso, confirmed the outbreak but expressed surprise at the circumstances. When I heard about this, I said . it s a joke. Probably they said that to conceal something else but it was exactly that, Álvarez told local station Radio Bio-Bio, as translated by Google Translate. We have corroborated it with at least six of the 15 [infected] people who told us the same thing.
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January 11, 2021 4:41 PM
Protestors rallied in front of LAUSD s headquarters during a protest last summer calling on the board to defund the LA School Police. (Chava Sanchez/ LAist)
Last summer, following nationwide protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, the L.A. Unified School District Board of Education agreed to cut its school police department’s budget by $25 million. The details such as how to make those cuts, and where to redirect the money were to be figured out soon thereafter.
Now, six months later, the proposal is still in limbo. A discussion on a drafted policy was scheduled for December, but Superintendent Austin Beutner postponed the item to allow more time for feedback from the school community. It was supposed to be taken up again at tomorrow’s board meeting but a revised agenda posted online says the item on School Police Budget Reduction and Reinvestment is “to be withdrawn.”
The test results confirm the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in some of the gorillas and does not definitively rule out the presence of the virus in other members.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, the United States, have tested positive for COVID-19, in the f