Yesterday the United States recorded its fewest COVID-19 cases in nearly 2 months, with 35,112 new cases and 445 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.The new cases raise the total to 5,469,604 cases and 171,344 deaths.

Though the decrease in cases is a sign that early summer hot spots, including Arizona, Texas, and Florida, are showing falling case counts, reports from schools that have opened across the country, as well as nursing home data, show congregate living is still a major contributor to COVID-19 outbreaks.No centralized data collection on schoolsThere is no official tally, however, on outbreaks in public elementary and high schools, NBC News reports.

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Alberta school boards already have ‘flexibility’ on fall restart date: education minister

province’s school re-entry plan, as it’s currently written, “provides school boards with the ability to delay or stagger school start dates should they decide that is in their local best interest.” Alberta Teachers’ Association requests school year delay at meeting with education minister On Wednesday, LaGrange met with The Alberta Teachers’ Association, which asked her to delay the school year’s start.ATA president Jason Schilling said the association wants the start of the school year to be pushed until after Labour Day, to allow staff more time to adjust to the new normal and enact recommendations put forward by the chief medical officer of health.In her statement, LaGrange said she agreed to “further engage with education partners”

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Piers Morgan 'itching' for Good Morning Britain return as he slams 'dumb' Covid deniers

Piers Morgan has admitted that he is "itching" to make a big comeback to Good Morning Britain as he took to Twitter to lash out at "dumb" Covid deniers and the government.

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ACL’s COVID-19 Resources: What’s New

our COVID-19 resource page: The latest from CDC:Updated survival guide for OAA IIIC grantees: We continue to regularly update the guidance and resources in our "survival guide" for Older Americans Act nutrition services program grantees. Recent additions include sustainability guides from the National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging and training guides for volunteers teaching technology use to older adults from South Dakota State University.Resource for students with disabilities and their families: The University of Cincinnati Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities has developed new resources to help families with difficult decisions about online and in-person learning.

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B.C. health officials hope coronavirus message goes viral with TikTok campaign

TikTok in an effort to get its coronavirus messaging to younger adults.It comes after weeks of data showed the province’s recent surge in cases was linked to a younger demographic, and criticism that the province’s messaging wasn’t getting through. Seth Rogen adds voice to B.C.

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Nova Scotia resource sector workers call on government to follow N.B.’s lead on self-isolation

New Brunswick dropped its self-isolation requirements for returning workers on June 19.

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Coronavirus: 1 new case for Peterborough area; active cases increase to 3

novel coronavirus on Friday.The health unit now has 102 cases with just three active cases for its jurisdiction of Peterborough, Peterborough County, Curve Lake First Nation and Hiawatha First Nation.The health unit also reported 23,850 people have been tested for the virus to date. Trudeau, Ford unveil deal to produce N95 masks at 3M plant in Brockville, Ont.

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Kentucky Derby reverses course, will run without fans

LOUISVILLE - Next month’s Kentucky Derby will run without fans at Churchill Downs. The historic track citied rises in COVID-19 cases in the Louisville area.It will mark the second Triple Crown race this year without spectators, following the Belmont Stakes in June.

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Netflix cancels ‘The Society’ and ‘I Am Not Okay With This’ due to COVID-19 crisis

Variety has confirmed.“I Am Not Okay With This” had not been formally renewed after its first season aired back in February, but “The Society” had been picked up for a second season last July.“We’ve made the difficult decision not to move forward with second seasons of ‘The Society’ and ‘I Am Not Okay With This,’” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement.

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COVID-19 Scan for Aug 21, 2020

A comprehensive review of data submitted by more than 15,000 US nursing homes revealed that about 20% faced a staff shortage or severe shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) in early July, months into the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study in Health Affairs yesterday.US researchers analyzed staff and PPE shortage data submitted by 15

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CDC's Redfield addresses school reopening, citing promising study

After reopening 666 childcare centers this summer, Rhode Island reported limited transmission of COVID-19 among children and staff, offering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more evidence on how to safely reopen schools for in-person learning this fall.

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Studies spotlight high COVID-19 infection rate in US prisons

A trio of new studies is highlighting the burden of COVID-19 in the nation's prison population and shedding light on how prisons might be able to reduce transmission.

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Lake County announces upcoming COVID-19 testing locations

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Lake County officials on Friday provided a list of several locations that will offer COVID-19 testing for residents during the upcoming week.The list includes both private and government sites so anyone who would like to get tested should check the requirements first.Testing sites can change so residents are encouraged to check the county’s testing site locator here before showing up at a site.Florida Department of Health in Lake CountyThe sites open at 9 a.m. each day through Friday and offer testing as long as kits are available on a first come, first served basis.

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Parents call on Nova Scotia business community to support action on back-to-school concerns

Students coming to Nova Scotia from outside Atlantic bubble to receive mandatory coronavirus tests The current plan has students and staff returning to full capacity on Sept.

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Coronavirus: Trudeau defends announcing $37B CERB replacement after closing Parliament

Justin Trudeau is defending his choice to shut down Parliament shortly before unveiling a $37-billion plan to replace a key emergency aid benefit.Ottawa announced new measures Thursday to support Canadians who have lost income or employment due to the COVID-19 pandemic — or need to stay off work for illness or caregiving — as the Canada Emergency Response Benefit winds down.

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Trent University providing more than 500 free laptop computers for students’ online learning

coronavirus pandemic.On Friday, the university announced more than $270,000 has been raised through a new donor-funded initiative called Remote Learning Initiative (ReLI) which will provide 500 students with Google Chromebook laptop computers.ReLI was created to help students overcome financial and technology resource hurdles for the 2020-21 academic school year, which beings Sept. 10 at Trent’s campuses in Peterborough and Durham.“In today’s world, not having the correct technology can directly translate to not having access to a quality education,” stated Sherry Booth, director of philanthropy at Trent University.

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Symptoms, confirmed cases and outbreaks: How Alberta plans to handle COVID-19 in schools

novel coronavirus turns up in classrooms.The province announced last month that in-school classes would be resuming this fall under Scenario 1 of the re-entry plan: near-normal daily operations with added health measures. Coronavirus: Alberta’s top doctor sending her children to school, continues to defend re-entry plan On Thursday, chief medical officer of health Dr.

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Active coronavirus cases drop to 134 in Saskatchewan

coronavirus cases in the province Friday.Health officials said there were six new cases, with the overall total for the province growing to 1,595 since the first case was reported in March. They added that one previously counted case from Aug.

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Gov. Murphy: Too many residents refuse to cooperate with contact tracers

TRENTON, N.J. - Gov. Phil Murphy is urging New Jersey residents to cooperate with the state's coronavirus contact tracers as part of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

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Sophia Bush Talks Mental Health & Self-Care In 4-H Interview

Sophia Bush is a 4-H alum and paid a virtual visit to young 4-H member Micah Palacios for a discussion on mental health.

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Johnson makes last-gasp playoff push in final year at Dover

Jimmie Johnson is at the win-or-else stage of his playoff push as he hits his favorite track.Johnson has a record 11 victories at Dover International Speedway, a staggering total that started in 2002 and stretched to June 2017, a win that has stood for three-plus years as his last in NASCAR. With Dover moving one of its two scheduled NASCAR race weekends to Nashville Superspeedway next season, Johnson’s mark seems unbreakable.

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COVID-19 testing site at Barnett Park delayed due to Tropical Storm Laura

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The coronavirus testing site at Barnett Park will open one day later than originally planned next week due to the threat of Tropical Storm Laura.The site at 4801 W. Colonial Dr.

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COVID-19 Parental Resources Kit – Young Adulthood

COVID-19 Parental Resource Kit: Ensuring Children and Young People’s Social, Emotional, and Mental Well-being can help support parents, caregivers, and other adults serving children and young people in recognizing children and young people’s social, emotional, and mental challenges and helping to ensure their well-being.In addition to other everyday steps to prevent COVID-19, physical or social distancing is one of the best tools we have to avoid being exposed to this virus and slow its spread. However, having to physically distance from someone you love—like friends, family, coworkers, or your worship community—can be hard.

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COVID-19 Parental Resources Kit – Childhood

COVID-19 Parental Resource Kit: Ensuring Children and Young People’s Social, Emotional, and Mental Well-being can help support parents, caregivers, and other adults serving children and young people in recognizing children and young people’s social, emotional, and mental challenges, and helping to ensure their well-being.In addition to other everyday steps to prevent COVID-19, physical or social distancing is one of the best tools we have to avoid being exposed to this virus and to slow its spread. However, having to physically distance from someone you love—like a grandparent, friends, your worship community, or sick family members—can be hard for children.

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COVID-19 Parental Resources Kit – Adolescence

COVID-19 Parental Resource Kit: Ensuring Children and Young People’s Social, Emotional, and Mental Well-being can help support parents, caregivers, and other adults serving children and young people in recognizing children and young people’s social, emotional, and mental challenges and helping to ensure their well-being.In addition to everyday steps to prevent COVID-19, physical or social distancing is one of the best tools we have to avoid being exposed to the virus and to slow its spread.

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COVID-19 Parental Resources Kit

Early Childhood (0-5y) | Childhood (6-12y) | Adolescence (13-17y) | Young Adults (18-24y)Explore different types of resources available to help you support young people’s social, emotional, and mental well-being across the lifespan.These ready-to-print door hangers can serve as reminders for children, young people, and adults alike to remember some COVID-19 prevention and mitigation practices.

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COVID-19 Parental Resources Kit – Early Childhood

COVID-19 Parental Resource Kit: Ensuring Children and Young People’s Social, Emotional, and Mental Well-being can help support parents, caregivers, and other adults serving children and young people in recognizing children and young people’s social, emotional, and mental challenges and helping to ensure their well-being.In addition to everyday steps to prevent COVID-19, physical or social distancing is one of the best tools we have to avoid being exposed to the virus and to slow its spread.

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World Humanitarian Day - No one should get sick seeking care: the critical role of infection prevention and control during the COVID-19 outbreak

Preventing health care associated infections has never been as important as it is now with the COVID-19 global pandemic. The highly infectious disease impacted everyone, everywhere in the world - in and outside health facilities - and established a new normal that includes wearing masks, carrying a hand sanitizer and keeping physical distance.

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Salford coach Ian Watson on self-isolation, Covid-19 testing and relaunching the Red Devils season

Ian Watson says Salford are ready to emerge from a “stressful and chaotic” two weeks and relaunch their Super League season again.

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India nears 3 million COVID cases as Europe continues to see spikes

Just 1 day before most of western India prepares to celebrate the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesh, the country is reporting a spike in COVID-19 infections that pushes its national total closer to 3 million.

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COVID-19: Hockey fans in Surrey, B.C., told to celebrate safely if Canucks win big

Dallas Stars beat Calgary 7-3, bounce Flames out of NHL playoffs The RCMP said that’s okay, but it needs to be different this year due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19.“If you do attend any kind of Canucks gathering or celebration, we’re asking you to please be mindful of current public health orders, to maintain physical distancing — to score that ‘hat trick of safety’ by washing your hands, wearing a mask if you can, and keeping that physical distance,” said Surrey RCMP spokesperson Cpl.

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Vancouver indoor pools to reopen mid-September with COVID-19 safety measures

coronavirus pandemic.The Vancouver Park Board will begin reopening eight of its nine pools, starting in mid-September, using a phased approach.The city closed all of its pools back in March, and swim groups and the union representing rec centre staff have been pressing officials to let the public back in. Vancouver’s private pools are open, so what’s keeping public ones closed? The pools will offer designated lap and public swimming periods, as well as reserved training time for sports groups.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]People will be able to book a time slot online, but the city is also saving room for drop-ins.The board has set a target of Sept.

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Resource sector workers call on Nova Scotia to follow N.B.’s lead on coronavirus self-isolation

coronavirus pandemic is take his trash to the end of his driveway.He’s worked on drilling rigs for eight years but always comes home to Kingston, N.S., where he’s been isolating at the end of each of his two-week rotations.He said it’s not the lack of activity or connectivity that bothers him most but the impression that the provincial government is more concerned about how it can reopen the province to other Canadians than its own residents returning home from work.“I think we should be looking after our own province’s people… not just only thinking about opening up for tourism and the economy,” he told Global News from his kitchen table.“A person like me is going to spend money on their days off just as much as someone coming for four or

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Quebec parents file legal challenge against province over back-to-school plan

coronavirus crisis.The challenge, which includes a motion for a safeguard order, was filed by prominent human rights lawyer Julius Grey on Friday in Quebec Superior Court.

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Orange County family discusses first day of face-to-face learning

WINDERMERE, Fla. – With Orange County Public Schools starting face-to-face learning today, News 6 spoke with a senior at Windermere High School, who said he's ready to see friends and be back in the classroom.Sandy Siegel's oldest child, Noah, headed out of the house for his last year of high school.Siegel said it's been emotional knowing that such a special year will look so different for her son."I'm hoping we get homecoming, prom, all the senior stuff that we look forward to from kindergarten to 12th grade," said Noah.Noah told News 6, he’s excited about the start of his senior year but adds it’ll be interesting to see how they operate.He said that the students were told lunch would be eaten in the classrooms, masks will be worn at all

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Bar owners urge state regulator for relief on liquor license renewals

ORLANDO, Fla. – Bars and breweries face a new hurdle as they continue to struggle due to Florida’s current COVID-19 rules, which keep many of those places closed. News 6 has learned letters from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation were sent out to bar owners throughout Central Florida as part of the annual liquor license renewal process. Aaron Dudek, who was among those who received a letter, co-owns three bars in the downtown Orlando area: The Lodge, The Woods and Burton’s in Thornton Park. “Every year you need to renew that license with the state,” he explained.

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy: No pre-election return of mail boxes, equipment

In this screenshot from U.S. Senate's livestream, U.S.

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Brandon region frustrated by tighter COVID-19 restrictions, but willing to do what it takes

COVID-19 in the Brandon area has resulted in the Province of Manitoba imposing tighter measures on the Prairie Mountain health region.Brandon’s mayor says it’s a frustrating situation for his community — but one he’s confident the city will have under control soon.“We’re not thrilled to be in this position,” Mayor Rick Chrest told 680 CJOB.“The province has monitored this very closely. All along, as a municipality, we very carefully and deliberately followed the guidelines and the orders of Dr.

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Coronavirus: Ford says response to call for PPE produced in Ontario ‘overwhelming’

Speaking beside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a 3M Canada facility in Brockville, Ont.

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Calgary to use Stampede site as jury trials resume

COVID-19 pandemic.The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench has decided that jury selection and trials will restart next month. In Edmonton, they’ll take place at a centre for writing diploma exams.

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Waterloo Catholic elementary schools will have staggered start this fall

Bill Kelly: Ontario parents still have concerns about Ford’s back-to-school plan “We need time to re-schedule and reconfigure our virtual school and we know that our youngest students will benefit from a little more time to get acclimatized to their new routines,” he explained.Kindergarteners are already staggered at the start in local Catholic schools so they are unaffected by the move.Students in Grades 1 and 2 will start Tuesday while Grades 3 and 4 will start Wednesday, Grades 5 and 6 Thursday and Grades 7 and 8 will start Friday.Shewchuk says that there will be no change of plans for Catholic high schools in the area.“Our secondary schools are going back on an adapted model which is already half the number of students, and most of

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Coronavirus: City of Kawartha Lakes estimating $500,000 pandemic-related costs for 2020

coronavirus pandemic-related closures, restrictions and losses of revenue, the budgeting process for 2021 will likely look much different than any years prior.Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a cost that is fixed into most emergency services budgets (police, fire and paramedics), but for most other departments within a municipality, it is not.

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Province announces 34 new coronavirus cases in Manitoba on Friday

coronavirus, bringing the province’s total of lab-confirmed cases to 830.Nine of the new cases are in the Winnipeg, with one in the Interlake-Eastern region, five in Prairie Mountain, and 19 in the Southern Health region.Health officials said that according to preliminary investigations, the cases in the southern part of the province are linked to a known cluster.There are currently 265 active cases, while 553 Manitobans have recovered from COVID-19. The total number of coronavirus-related deaths in the province remains at 12.

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Coronavirus: Trudeau lauds deal with 3M, Ontario government to produce PPE domestically

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau helped announce a partnership with 3M and the government of Ontario to produce Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Brockville, Ont. on Friday.

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2014 US Open finalist Nishikori positive for COVID-19 again

NEW YORK – Kei Nishikori, the 2014 U.S. Open runner-up, said Friday he tested positive for COVID-19 a second time.Nishikori wrote on his mobile app that he will take another test next week, “at which time we will update you with more information.”“I have very minimal symptoms and am staying in full isolation,” Nishikori wrote Friday.

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Some of the best MLS-rivalries take center stage on FOX Sports

Joe Corona #15 of LA Galaxy plays the ball out of the air during a game between Los Angeles Galaxy and Los Angeles FC at ESPN Wide World of Sports on July 18, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (Photo by Roy K.

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Subway Series postponed after Mets' positive COVID tests

NEW YORK – Major League Baseball postponed this weekend's Subway Series to allow time for more testing and contact tracing after two members of the New York Mets tested positive for the coronavirus.The Mets had their game Thursday night in Miami as well as Friday's opener against the Yankees postponed on Thursday after the results were reported. MLB postponed the entire weekend series between the New York teams on Friday “out of an abundance of caution and to allow for additional testing and contact tracing.” The Mets flew home Thursday night and are in New York.

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Newfoundland and Labrador declares no active cases of COVID-19 in province

Andrew Furey sworn in as Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier The cases involved two employees of the St. John’s-shot television series “Hudson & Rex,” who tested positive for the virus earlier in August.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Three people have died from COVID-19 in the province and 265 people have recovered.Ten cases have been reported since the beginning of May.

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Zero new COVID-19 cases for Middlesex and Sarnia Lambton health units

coronavirus in London and Middlesex and two people have recovered, local health officials reported on Friday.The region’s total case count is still at 719, of which 628 have recovered, a figure unchanged from the day before. The death toll, 57, has remained the same since June 12.There are at least 34 known active cases in the region.Both of Thursday’s cases involve people from London, Ont.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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