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Covid-19 Most governors in the United States have ordered or recommended that statewide school closures continue for the rest of the academic year to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. Several states have announced their plans to begin lifting social distancing measures and the federal government has issued guidelines to reopen the country in phases, but it doesn't appear that students will return to the classroom this spring. Officials in 48 US states , as well as Washington DC, have ordered or recommended school closures for the rest of the school year, according to a CNN tally. Schools in all five US territories -- American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands -- also are closed for the remainder of the school year. States with mandatory or recommended closures Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa ...

Canada reported 336 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday as well as four more deaths. The new numbers bring the country’s total lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 to 110,307. A total of 8,852 people in Canada have died from the coronavirus. More than 97,000 people have since recovered from their infections, however, while the amount of tests administered has surpassed the four million mark. As of Friday, at least 88 per cent of Canada’s COVID-19 cases Canada   have recovered from the virus. The numbers released on Sunday do not cover all the regions in the country, however, due to provinces including B.C., Alberta, P.E.I. and the territories not releasing data over the weekend. Among the provinces that did report new COVID-19 data, Ontario added 164 new cases of the virus, plus three more deaths. The figures bring the provincial total to 37,604 confirmed COVID-19 cases, as well as 2,751 deaths from the virus. Quebec reported 166 new cases of the virus on Sunday a...

Even as they recommended working to reopen schools in-person, the nation's science academies warned: "It is likely that someone in the school community will contract  COVID-19 ."  But largely missing from the reopening protocols at states and schools around the nation are concrete plans for what administrators are to do when coronavirus infections enter a school. The prospect of reopening school in the fall is already looking less likely in much of the nation. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have skyrocketed to nearly 3.6 million, and more than half of states have paused or scaled back efforts to reopen their economies. A growing number of school districts have decided to start the fall semester online.  California's districts  with high cases or transmission must begin the academic year with distance learning, the state's governor announced Friday. In other states, districts are pushing back their start dates. Covid Breaking News A parent's guide t...