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CDC Eases School Guidance; Florida Cases Surge: Virus Update

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By Bloomberg News

July 8, 2021 at 10:03 PM UTC

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July 9, 2021 at 8:23 PM UTC

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is giving schools more flexibility to decide how to safely keep kids in kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms while guarding against the further spread of Covid-19.

Infections are rising across most regions of the world as the delta variant spreads, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said. The reproduction rate in England has risen to the highest levels since October.