Chicago teachers agree to resume in-person lessons

 

Chicago public schools are set to continue in-person classes after the city's teachers union backed a plan with the local school district to create new safety measures against the pandemic, ending a nearly week-long standoff.

 

The Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) Board of Delegates voted to resume face-to-face learning Monday, suspending a labor dispute that has led teachers to refuse to give lessons in person starting last week. Under the new plan, schools will reopen on Wednesday.

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"World Health": "Santa Claus" is immune to "Corona"

 Celebrating Christmas is usually a joy that enters the hearts of children looking for gifts from their mythical "Santa Claus", but "Christmas" this year is different in light of the Corona outbreak .. and with strict preventive measures, children fear that "Santa Claus" will be infected with the virus, and thus it is transmitted to them. Infection, or unable t give his gifts.

In this regard, the World Health Organization sent a message to children around the world that Santa Claus "Santa Claus" has immunity to the Corona virus, which will enable him to safely present gifts on Christmas Day.

Maria Van Kerkhove, the supervisor of the Pandemic Department at the organization, confirmed, saying: "I understand the concern about Santa Claus because he is old and therefore from an age group that the epidemic poses a greater threat to .. But I can tell you that Santa Claus is immune to this virus."

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Corona's potential treatment date

Seth Berkeley, CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), told a Swiss newspaper, that the first indications of the effectiveness of a possible vaccine against the Corona virus can appear in the fall, predicting a long way between this development and the widespread availability of the vaccine.

"Unfortunately, we do not really know which vaccine will work, and whether it is possible that there will be a vaccine at all. If we are lucky, we will see the first indications in the fall regarding efficacy," Berkeley said. Relates to a possible vaccine. "

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Trump: It seems my election campaign has been spied

Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday that it seemed more and more that his campaign for the 2016 presidential election was spying. Trump wrote the twinkle after saying that documents about his former campaign adviser Carter Bidej had confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had misled the courts. Trump also criticized Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the National Democratic Party, the party's executive body. "It seems more and more that Trump's presidential campaign has been under surveillance for the political interest of Hillary Clinton, who has twisted tactics and the interests of the Democratic National Committee," Trump said in a tweet.

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Violent clashes in Greece on the anniversary of the student uprising

Greek police clashed with masked youths in the capital Athens on Friday after thousands of Greeks marched through the capital on the anniversary of a bloody 1973 student uprising against the military junta that ruled the country at the time.

More than 10,000 people marched peacefully to the United States embassy, which some protesters accuse of supporting the seven-year military rule. Authorities deployed about 5,000 policemen in the streets of central Athens.

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