ZAMBOANGA CITY- The Zamboanga City Health Office has reported seven deaths due to dengue and 225 cases of the disease since January 1 this year.
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Those who died were aged 10 years old and younger, coming from six barangays.
The deaths were from the ba
Lennox School District Supt. Scott Price has dealt with academic programs, union negotiations and budget deficits. But nothing has prepared him or other education leaders to make decisions about a pressing medical issue: How to or even whether to provide school-based coronavirus testing to students, teachers and other staff.
Many experts view regular, universal testing at schools as a crucial component to helping campuses reopen and remain open, while also contributing toward curbing the raging pandemic. Yet California does not require school-based testing and no one has offered to pay for it. So, Price is going to take a pass with some misgivings and try to keep his staff and 5,000 students safe through other means when they are able to return to campus.
All in-person instruction and childcare programs for students within the Los Angeles Unified School District have been suspended as the region continues to see a rise in COVID-19 cases, Superintendent Austin Beutner announced Monday. We re not just an academic institution - obviously. We want to be sure that we re being part of the solution, said Larry Boone, principal of Dalzell Lance High School.
This week, their efforts appear to be paying off with an impressive 400 of 500 appointments made on Monday. Varisel Aposta came because she has a family member that tested positive. If we don t know that we have a positive, then it keeps going and going you know, said Aposta, who s glad it s being offered here.