COVID-19 and Philly: Approved restaurants can soon increase indoor dining capacity to 50% phillyvoice.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phillyvoice.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
U.S. races to administer COVID-19 vaccines as variant threat grows stronger
The U.S. is slowly gaining momentum in the fight against the coronavirus, as the nation sees a drop in new cases and hospital admissions and a rise in vaccine production. But officials are now racing to get as many Americans as possible vaccinated before a new, more contagious variant of the virus becomes the dominant strain which experts warn could happen in a matter of weeks. We have yet to control this pandemic, we still have this emerging threat of variants, said CDC director Rochelle Walensky.
Cases of the more contagious variant first detected in the U.K. are doubling nearly every 10 days. It s been spotted in at least 34 states, and it could become the nation s dominant strain in just a few weeks.
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Are public schools safe to reopen?
Laura H. Carnell Elementary School faculty want to return to classrooms, but only if it is safe.
The School District of Philadelphia hasn’t had any in-person learning since last March, though that is scheduled to end in two weeks.
The school district plans to open schools on Feb. 22 for some 9,000 pupils in pre-kindergarten through second grade whose parents previously said they supported the move back to in-person learning. The kids would attend school two days a week and learn virtually the other three days.
The district asked teachers in those grades to go back to school on Monday for two weeks of preparation leading up to the reopening.
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The union representing teachers in the School District of Philadelphia is telling members not to go into the buildings on Monday over COVID-19 safety concerns.
Late Sunday night, city officials confirmed to Action News that a mediation process is underway and teachers would not be mandated to report. The mediation process is still ongoing. Without a final decision from the mediator, teachers won t be mandated to report tomorrow, but any teacher who chooses to report is welcome to do so. We remain hopeful that this process will ultimately allow both parties to come to a resolution in time for students to return the week of February 22, said a spokesperson for the city.