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Month: August 2021

South Florida's Broward County Public Schools will withdraw its mask mandate after the governor threatened to withhold funding from districts that require face coverings. The Broward County school board had voted July 28 to mandate masks.

Florida’s Broward County school district reverses its mask mandate after funding threat from the governor

By Joe Sutton and Jason Hanna, CNN Florida’s second-largest school district said it will withdraw its mask mandate after the governor threatened to withhold funding from districts that require face coverings. South Florida’s Broward County Public Schools had announced last week that the district would require everyone in their buildings to wear masks to guard

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Las personas completamente vacunadas deben hacerse pruebas de covid-19 si tienen síntomas leves, dice el director de los NIH

Sol Amaya (CNN)– El Dr. Francis Collins, director de los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NHI, por sus siglas en inglés), le dijo a Brianna Keilar de CNN el martes que las personas que están completamente vacunadas contra el covid-19 deben hacerse una prueba si experimentan síntomas leves del virus. “Seamos claros, las infecciones en personas

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Estados Unidos está ante “el peor aumento” de casos de covid-19, según ex director de Sanidad

Sol Amaya (CNN) — Estados Unidos puede estar enfrentando actualmente el peor aumento de casos de covid-19 que la nación ha visto hasta ahora, dijo el martes el Dr. Jerome Adams, ex director de Sanidad bajo la administración Trump. “No estamos levantando una falsa alarma. Este aumento que estamos atravesando en este momento tiene todo

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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Would you go to a business or location that would require you to show proof of vaccination?

On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city will require proof of vaccination to enter all restaurants, fitness centers and indoor entertainment venues. Businesses across Corporate America have begun rolling out vaccine requirements for employees and in some cases for customers and clients to show their proof of vaccination as well.

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In this aerial photo houseboats sit in low water on Lake Oroville as California's drought emergency worsens

California regulators vote to restrict water access for thousands of farmers amid severe drought

By Ray Sanchez, Alexandra Meeks and Brisa Colón, CNN California water regulators voted Tuesday to restrict water access for thousands of Central Valley farmers as the state endures a severe drought. The California State Water Board unanimously agreed to issue an emergency order that bans some farmers from diverting water from rivers and streams in

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Descubren tesoros “arqueológicos” incluyendo fruta de 2.400 años en una ciudad antigua de Egipto

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una serie de “tesoros” arqueológicos, como cerámicas griegas y cestas de mimbre de 2.400 años de antigüedad llenas de fruta, fueron descubiertos en los restos de la antigua ciudad hundida de Thonis-Heracleion, frente a la costa egipcia.Thonis-Heracleion fue el mayor puerto mediterráneo de Egipto antes de que Alejandro Magno fundara Alejandría

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Utah will give KN95 masks to children as the Delta variant fuels Covid-19 hospitalizations nationwide

By Holly Yan, Madeline Holcombe and Amir Vera, CNN The surge of Covid-19 fueled by the Delta variant and low vaccination rates is sending the country backward in the pandemic, with hospitalizations reaching wintertime levels. For the first time since February 27, more than 50,000 Covid-19 patients were hospitalized Monday, according to data from the

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Tencent announces new limits on screen time as China increases crackdown on the gaming industry. This image taken on July 9 shows Tencent's game Honor of Kings in Shanghai

Tencent cracks down on screen time after Chinese state media says gaming is ‘spiritual opium’

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Tencent has announced new limits on the amount of time minors can spend playing the company’s online games, even as investors worry that China may extend its historic crackdown on the private sector to the gaming industry. Those fears were stoked Tuesday after Economic Information Daily — a business newspaper

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