Covid-19 News: Republican Governors Push for Schools to Reopen Last Updated March 24, 2021, 7:47 a.m. ETMarch 24, 2021, 7:47 a.m. ET The more transmissible and possibly more lethal B.1.1.7 variant is spreading rapidly as Arizona, California and South Carolina join Texas and other states in easing limits. The Dalai Lama receives his first dose of a Covid vaccine. Here’s what you need to know: Elementary school students in Salem, Mass., last month. Gov. Charlie Baker and state education officials have called for elementary school students to return to in-person learning five days a week in April, with older students to follow.Credit...Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images