Chicago will teach online only when school resumes in September, the mayor said on Wednesday, and New York City announced checkpoints at bridges and tunnels to enforce a quarantine on travelers from 35 states on a list of coronavirus hot spots.
The teachers’ union and many parents in Chicago had objected to a plan to allow students the option of attending class in pods of 15 pupils twice a week.“In a perfect world, students would be in classrooms more, not less. But unfortunately that is not where we find ourselves today,” Chicago schools chief Janice Jackson said at a news conference with Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
U.S. President Donald Trump has called for schools nationwide to reopen and Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease specialist, has said that children should be sent back to class if at all possible. The measure underscores the determination in what was once the pandemic’s epicenter to prevent a resurgence of COVID-19 infections. Cases are down 5% nationally but soared last week in Oklahoma, Montana, Missouri and 17 other states.
Teams will be deployed at Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday, he said, to ensure travelers stop to complete a travel form. FILE PHOTO: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference for the outbreak of Coronavirus disease at City Hall in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
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