LIVE | New York locks schools for corona | Inland

Public schools in New York will close from Thursday to prevent corona in the city. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this. In the city, an average of 3 percent test positive with a corona test, which is the threshold at which schools must close, according to Blasio. He spoke of a precautionary measure. “We have to fight the second wave of Covid-19.”

New York was badly hit by the virus in the spring, but it is hit again, as is the entire United States. Blasio’s decision to close the schools has drawn him a lot of criticism, because he said earlier that the virus is hardly dangerous for education. He also did not intervene in major protests from Black Lives Matter.

Last week, catering establishments in New York state already had to deal with adjusted closing times. Cafés and restaurants that serve alcohol must close at 10 p.m., although customers are still allowed to pick up food afterwards. Gyms may open for shorter periods and no more than ten people may attend private gatherings.

In the US, 1,707 people died from the virus on Wednesday, the highest daily number since May. The total death toll is approaching a quarter of a million, by far the highest in the world.

More corona news

Inland:

• Positive cases out, more freedom for the rest’
• South Limburg will also get XL corona test street
• Number corona patients in hospitals decreases by 59
• Coalition and GroenLinks want more haste with large-scale testing
• VVD willing to think about ‘indirect’ vaccination obligation
• This says Jaap van Dissel about Christmas advice OMT
• Room: More corona beds in care hotels
• Number of corona reports is increasingeven with a malfunction
• De Jonge: ‘Every Dutch person test for corona once a month’
• Children up to 12 are allowed again sing together
• Van Dissel hopeful over coronavaccins
• Advice OMT: Christmas with up to 6 guests, preferably from the neighborhood
• Aruba is counting on code yellow next week
• Not 1.5 meters for teacher and student if there is no other option
• Travelers arriving in the Netherlands will soon be obliged to prove that they have been tested negative
• ‘Coronapaspoort’: later only with vaccination night out?
• Supermarkets after press conference: surprising that Rutte mentions us
• From measures at a glance

Abroad:

• Danish study: mouth mask hardly protects against corona
• New York closes schools due to corona crisis
• Police intervenes corona demonstration Berlin
• Australians get totale lockdown of six days to their choosing

Financial-economic:

• Again hundreds of millions of corona support for KLM
• Shell let the sun break through at the fair
• Man works less than ten days, will receive € 20,000
• ’Entrepreneur understands that easing too quickly is not in their interest ‘
• Nikkei continues to advance virussorgen
• TUI is looking for billions again
• Haarlemmermeer hardest blow in corona crisis

Sport:

• Amateur clubs pissed off about cup: ‘KNVB can exert a little more pressure’
• Gudde is fed up with it KNVB cup: ‘Very big disappointment’
• Also corona at FC Twente: Many positive
• Dutch soccerteam hopes for a miracle in Poland
• KNVB cup otherwise without amateur clubs

Entertainment:

• Jennifer Lopez saw it during corona ‘just lost’
• Harvey Weinstein with a high fever in isolation’

read here the live blog of Tuesday 17 November back.

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