Nearly 1,425 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Ohio Wednesday, bringing the total to 162,723, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Source: Coronavirus: 1,424 new cases, 162,723 total cases reported in Ohio
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Boston Public Schools reopening delayed due to COVID-19 surge

Boston Public Schools (BPS) delayed its reopening plan after the city saw an alarming surge in coronavirus cases.Mayor Marty Walsh (D) announced the setback after Boston’s coronavirus positivity rate spiked beyond…
Italy orders mandatory masks as virus cases rise

Italy has made it mandatory that all citizens wear face coverings while in public as the country grapples with a recent surge in coronavirus cases.The order was approved during a Cabinet meeting this week and goes…
Lebanon Announces Another Record Daily Tally of Covid-19 Cases
Lebanon on Wednesday announced 1,459 new coronavirus cases — the highest daily tally recorded by the country since the first case was detected on February 21. 
Lebanon on Wednesday announced 1,459 new coronavirus cases — the highest daily tally recorded by the country since the first case was detected on February 21.
The 1937 Experiment in Distance Learning: When Chicago Schools Went Remote, Over Radio, During a Polio Outbreak | Open Culture
COVID-19 at the White House – Contact Tracking – Peter James Walker | Tableau Public
Is Airport COVID-19 Testing Ready for Takeoff?

Austria’s Vienna airport was an early adopter for in-airport COVID-19 tests, with results turned around within a few hours, sparing those with medical certificates from a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Can this serve as a model for restarting business travel and tourism? We talk to Vienna airport official Peter Kleemann to learn more.
Ultra-Orthodox object to tight New York synagogue restrictions – The Jerusalem Post (social politics over religion?)
Tuesday evening saw mass protests by members of the ultra-Orthodox community against the new regulations, with huge crowds gathering in Borough Park without masks and in defiance of those regulations. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox protestors took part in the demonstrations set at least one fire and burned masks. A Jewish individual who sought to photograph and document the mass violation of the new regulations was severely beaten by some protestors and required hospitalization. Video footage of him being harassed and apparently beaten was published by the New York Post. Also on Wednesday, evidence emerged that the Satmar community in Kiryas Yoel and other parts of New York state do not intend to abide by the new regulations for the upcoming Simchat Torah holiday that takes place this Friday night and Saturday. The ultra-Orthodox Israeli reporter Yisrael Cohen published an image of a leaflet on Twitter written in the name of Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, the grand rabbi of one branch of the Satmar hassidic sect, in which it was written that the traditional, mass celebrations which take place on Simchat Torah will go ahead as usual. “I take responsibility that anyone who comes to rejoice with the Torah will not be harmed and will not fall ill,” said the grand rabbi, who himself contracted COVID-19 in New York’s first wave, along with his wife and brother who had severe cases of the disease.
Source: Ultra-Orthodox object to tight New York synagogue restrictions – The Jerusalem Post
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Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbis call to reduce dancing on Simhat Torah
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein instruct not to hold hands during traditional holiday dancing, not to kiss Torah scrolls, and to keep distance ‘as far as possible.’
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