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Northern Essex Community College turns idle parking lots into Wi-Fi hot spots

October 8, 2020

With nearly all its classes now virtual due to COVID-19, Northern Essex Community College has found a productive use for its largely idle parking lots, making them Wi-Fi hot spots for students and local residents.

The college in early September began offering free Wi-Fi service at six of the eight parking lots on its Haverhill and Lawrence campuses, enabling students and community members to study and work online in their parked vehicles. The lots are otherwise nearly empty because so few classes are meeting on campus.

The initiative is a response to a survey the college undertook last spring in which students said spotty Internet service at home and finding a quiet place to study were two of the main challenges they faced in adjusting to remote learning, according to Ricardo “Danny” Rivera, Northern Essex’s assistant director of client technology and media services.

“We’ve always wanted to do outdoor Wi-Fi,”

New York City Didn’t Focus Community Outreach in Covid-19 Hot Spots Before Surges

October 8, 2020

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This summer New York City’s public-hospital system identified the areas most at risk of a resurgence of Covid-19 and enlisted community-based organizations to help educate residents and test and trace for the virus.

Now, with the new coronavirus resurgent across pockets of the city, some say this summer’s effort was insufficient and focused on the wrong neighborhoods.

Earlier this week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered new restrictions on communities around the state where the virus has rebounded. The affected areas have higher positivity rates of Covid-19 than the rest of the state and include communities in nine ZIP Codes in Brooklyn and Queens that the city has been tracking for weeks as hot spots. Large Orthodox Jewish communities reside in most of the hot spots.

Of the nine ZIP Codes targeted by the city, only one was listed as a high priority this summer by the Health + Hospitals

Aldi, Coles supermarkets deemed virus hot spots

October 6, 2020

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Three major Melbourne supermarkets have been added to the Department of Health’s high-risk list of coronavirus exposure sites.

DHHS issued a warning for anyone who shopped at Coles Williamstown on September 30 from 7pm-10pm and Coles at Westfield Southland on October 2 from 4.45pm-5.15pm to get tested.

Aldi Keysborough was also added to the high-risk list overnight – anyone who shopped at the store on October 1 between 3.45pm-4pm should also get tested for coronavirus.

Shopping centres continue to be a concern for health authorities with the city’s Chadstone outbreak growing to 28 cases.

Eight staff members of The Butcher Club Chadstone, 11 family and close contacts and four customers have all tested positive for COVID-19.

On Wednesday chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton revealed a relative of a staff member at The Butcher Club then spread the virus to regional Victoria, where two cases in the country town of

Minnesota Department Of Health Announces Increases In Hot Spots, Hospitalizations Due To Coronavirus

October 2, 2020

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September 30, 2020

As Minnesota nears its 100,000th confirmed case of COVID-19, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is cautioning that the worst of the pandemic may not be over.

Earlier today, MDH announced there were 16 deaths reported in the state attributed to COVID-19 – the highest daily total in more than a month.

Patients requiring hospitalization have increased as well, reporting levels that are the highest since early June.

MDH officials have attributed the spike in cases and deaths to formal and informal gatherings among friends, families and co-workers who are not adhering to mask-wearing and social distancing. At least 75 confirmed cases in recent weeks have been linked to a late-August wedding in Lyon County. A total of 39 cases have been linked to a funeral in Martin County.

As of today’s figures, 2,036 Minnesotans have died to illnesses attributed to COVID-19. Of those, 72 percent were

The Latest: 2 Philippine tourist spots partially reopen

October 2, 2020

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The mountain city of Baguio, regarded as a summer hideaway for its pine trees, cool breeze and picturesque upland views, has been reopened to tourists only from its northern region, she told ABS-CBN News.

Despite the urgent need to revive the tourism industry, it’s being done “very slowly, cautiously,” she said, adding mayors and governors would have to approve the reopening of tourism spots. “We really have to be careful,” she said.

Like in most countries, the pandemic has devastated the tourism industry in the Philippines, which now has the most confirmed COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia at more than 314,000, with 5,504 deaths.

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New York Worries Over 20 Coronavirus Hot Spots, Wisconsin Sees Troubling Trends | Top News

October 1, 2020

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By Jonathan Allen and Lisa Shumaker

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state reported an uptick of positive coronavirus tests in 20 “hot spots” on Thursday, while Midwest states also reported rising caseloads led by Wisconsin, where U.S. President Donald Tramp will hold rallies over the weekend.

New cases of COVID-19 rose in 27 out of 50 U.S. states in September compared with August, with an increase of 111% in Wisconsin, according to a Reuters analysis.

Wisconsin is also dealing with a troubling rise in serious COVID-19 cases that threaten to overwhelm hospitals.

“Our emergency department has had several instances in the past week where it was past capacity and needed to place patients in beds in the hallways,” Bellin Health, which runs a hospital in Green Bay, said in a statement. “Our ICU (intensive care unit) beds have also been full, or nearly full, during the past week.”

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Cuomo, Orthodox Jewish community tackle COVID-19 hot spots

September 30, 2020

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ALBANY — Following discussions with religious leaders in the Orthodox Jewish community, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the state will be working with the religious leaders to come up with an action plan that will aggressively address the coronavirus outbreaks in the downstate communities.

In recent days, 20 zip codes in Rockland, Kings and Orange counties have seen their COVID-positivity rates climb and driven the statewide infection rate to just over 1 percent, according to the latest coronavirus figures from the executive’s office. The hot spot zip codes alone carry a 5.5 percent positivity rate, which when taken out of the statewide rate leaves New York with a 0.82 percent infection rate, according to Tuesday’s figures.

“We’re going to be just as aggressive with this cluster,” Cuomo said, noting that at the beginning of the public health crisis the Empire State dealt with a COVID-19 cluster in New Rochelle. “These