europe this morning, we saw equities rising by a percent or so, across the whole you row zone region and in the u.k. as well and we are seeing the u.s. futures indicating a very positive open indeed. so with covid cases, on the decline, more and more businesses are starting to ask their employees, to start coming back to the office, and one of them is microsoft, they announced yesterday, that they want some of their employees to be back by the end this month, what measures do they have in place, microsoft, as covid-19 cases continue to hopefully decline? well, they had originally planned a reopening late last year and they had to kind of stall that as a lot of companies had the headlines here, for lots of viewers whether they re planning the return to the office or not. microsoft headquarters have around 47,000 employees in it. they have been running through a six stage reopening plan, as you mentioned there, and now confirming that by february 28th, they ll be expecting a lot of t
The Erie County Department of Health says 17 Erie County school districts and 11 private schools will participate in the county's test-to-stay program.
The program will allow students, who would otherwise be subject to quarantine, at qualifying P-12 schools to attend classes following an in-school COVID-19 exposure, as long as they remain symptom free.
Many Smithsonian facilities are located in Washington, D.C., which has experienced a surge in coronavirus cases due to the spread of the Omicron variant.