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95% of schools are ready to reopen on Monday."With humility" Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga asked that no other people but teachers and pupils go to schools.Motshekga praised the efforts by all partners to prepare schools.Schools around the country are gearing up to welcome back Grade 7 and 12 pupils under new health protocols, and with…

Hundreds of protesters made their way toward Barclays Center in Brooklyn to demonstrate against police brutality, May 29, 2020.Erik McGregor | Getty ImagesThe U.S. is heading for a nasty second wave of Covid-19 infections this fall as the coronavirus circulates while protests rage across the nation over George Floyd's death and states ease restrictions on…

A number of countries that have reopened schools in the past two months have reported no resulting increase in coronavirus infection rates, an encouraging sign for authorities around the world that are contemplating how and when to safely bring children back to the classroom. Authorities in many hard-hit countries such as Italy and the U.S.…

U.S. coronavirus hospitalizations have crept higher as states increasingly loosen Covid-19 restrictions and try to return to some semblance of normalcy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Tuesday. "We now see a trend in an uptick in hospitalizations. It's a small uptick, but it is an uptick and it's unmistakable and it is probably…

The federal Centers for Disease Control recently said the coronavirus doesn’t spread as easily from someone touching a surface or object than it does via person-to-person contact.So does that mean New Jersey might allow places like children’s playgrounds to reopen?Gov. Phil Murphy, who has been slowly easing the state’s COVID-19 restrictions in recent days, said…