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AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s two weeks after Thanksgiving and many school districts are seeing spikes of COVID-19 exposures, just like health experts predicted. It’s led to difficulty in contact tracing and staffing shortages as more employees are also forced to quarantine. The Leander Independent School District, which has seen a significant jump in exposures, is …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Dr. Adrienne Battle announced that COVID-19 cases have spiked since Thanksgiving Break. During a MNPS Board meeting, she said 68 staff and 30 students tested positive last week. More than 200 staff and students are currently in either quarantine or isolation. The district also hit its …

Students at USM, UWM tested for the coronavirus after Thanksgiving break On both campuses, if a student receives positive rapid and PCR tests, they’ll be asked to isolate.  RIVER HILLS, Wis. – With Thanksgiving break over, leaders at Milwaukee-area schools and universities face yet another challenge. They’re working to make sure students and faculty weren’t …

article TERRELL, Texas – While students in many school districts are returning to class, it’s a different story in Terrell, east of Dallas. The district extended its Thanksgiving break for another week because of several coronavirus cases among students and staff. RELATED: Coronavirus continued coverage The number of cases in the district is relatively small but …

Doctors are studying the impact of Covid-19 on pregnant women and their unborn babies in Singapore, where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease. The ongoing study among the city-state’s public hospitals adds to international efforts to better understand whether the …

As students head home for Thanksgiving, some decided to spend the break on campus. The University policy for this quarter allows students living in on-campus housing to stay until the end of autumn quarter, if they don’t leave the Chicago area for Thanksgiving break. First-year Madhav Vats from California will stay on campus for academic …

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There’s been plenty of concern about COVID-19 superspreader events surrounding this holiday weekend, and it could take days, if not weeks, to realize the true impact of Thanksgiving. As CBS2’s Kevin Rincon reported, airports were a bit more crowded this week and so were the roadways for Thanksgiving travel, but it …

HUNTSVILLE, Ark. — Huntsville High School students will temporarily pivot to virtual learning for the week following Thanksgiving break due to COVID-19 cases among staff, according to a social media post from the Huntsville School District.  The school district says they will re-evaluate at the end of next week to see if the high school …

The Lincoln County School System has announced that students in grades 6 through 8 at Unity middle school will be mandated to attend school virtually during the week following Thanksgiving, November 30 through December 8. LCS has released a statement on the matter and it is printed below: “Unity Middle School (Grades 6-8) will go …

It’s already blisteringly hot across New South Wales – and it’s only just gone past 10am. The hot blast has arrived in Sydney, with the hottest temperature of 35.1 recorded at Sydney Olympic Park. It was only marginally cooler elsewhere, with the Sydney CBD reaching 33C at 10am, Parramatta 31.6C and in the north Terrey …