Nineteen students who went to an outdoor graduation event and offsite prom hosted by a Missouri high school in early July have actually checked favorable for COVID-19, the school revealed Monday afternoon.
St. Dominic High School, a Roman Catholic school in the St. Louis suburban area of O’Fallon, added that 2 visitors who participated in among the occasions likewise evaluated favorable for the coronavirus.
The school stated it would cancel all student activities through August 9. “We are doing so to permit families to take the needed preventative measures to help make sure a successful start of the academic school year on August 10, with classes beginning on August 17,” the school said in a declaration.
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The statement came 3 days after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson appeared to minimize the danger of resuming public schools amidst the pandemic, saying in a radio interview that trainees who may contract the virus in a class are “going to get over it.”
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” These kids have got to get back to school,” Parson told the radio station KFTK on Friday. “They’re at the most affordable threat possible, and if they do get COVID-19– which they will, and they will when they go to school– they’re not going to the health centers. They’re not going to have to being in physicians’ offices. They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.”
” We got to carry on,” Parson added. “We can’t just let this thing stop us in our tracks.”
Parson’s remarks provoked extreme backlash. Nicole Galloway, the state auditor and a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, blasted the Republican governor for his ” sensational ignorance.”
” He confessed that he’s alright with your kids (and your families) getting the deadly disease when he sends them back to school,” Galloway said in a tweet. “Does he not understand several American kids have died after being contaminated?”
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Here’s a summary of other coronavirus-related developments making headings Tuesday:
- Across the U.S., more states are asking people who take a trip to COVID-19 hot spots to quarantine upon their return. New York added 10 more states to its list Tuesday, bringing the overall to31 Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, meanwhile, revealed the state was asking anybody who traveled to states with a 15 percent case positivity rate to quarantine for 14 days when they get return.
- The judge assigned to hear a suit submitted by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to stop Atlanta from imposing a mask required recused herself from the matter Tuesday, at the request of the state.
- In the latest effort to “name and pity” China’s government-sponsored cyber theft, the Justice Department announced an indictment Tuesday charging 2 Chinese nationals — both in China– with hacking federal governments, dissidents, human rights activists and personal business, including those participated in COVID-19 vaccine research study, NBC News’ Ken Dilanian and Pete Williams report.
- 2 potential coronavirus vaccines have revealed appealing lead to early trials, and while specialists state it’s encouraging news, they caution that some of the biggest hurdles still lie ahead. NBC News’ Denise Chow has more information here
- President Donald Trump is tossing a big wrench into settlements in between the White Home and Senate Republicans over the next coronavirus relief expense by requiring a payroll tax cut be included and moneying for testing be reduced or cut totally, according to NBC News’ Leigh Ann Caldwell, Julie Tsirkin and Garrett Haake.
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