COVID-19 Updates
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Guidance for Group Homes for Individuals with Disabilities
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Cleaning And Disinfecting Your Home
Always read and follow the directions on the label to ensure safe and effective use. Wear skin protection and consider eye protection for potential splash hazards Ensure adequate ventilation Use…
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Implementation of Mitigation Strategies for Communities with Local COVID-19 Transmission
Background This document describes the goals, guiding principles, and strategies for community mitigation to reduce or prevent local COVID-19 transmission. Community mitigation activities are actions that people and communities can…
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Cleaning and Disinfection for Community Facilities
Revisions made on 4/1/2020: Added guidance on the timing of disinfection after a suspected/confirmed COVID-19 case Revisions made on 3/26/2020: Updated guidance for cleaning and disinfection of soft (porous) surfaces…
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Amazon writes its own TV news segments to laud coronavirus pandemic response
After weathering a couple of months of withering news coverage about its response to the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon is offering its own take on the news.Several local TV news stations…
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Japan wants tourists to return so much it’s offering to pay for half of their travel expenses, perhaps
In April, foreign visitor numbers to Japan fell by 99.9 per cent from the same month last year, according to the Japan National Tourism Organisation. Were this any other time,…
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Who is Dominic Cummings, and why has his lockdown car trip convulsed UK politics?
The Rose Garden at 10 Downing Street is normally reserved for British prime ministers to make set-piece announcements. But on Monday it was the scene of epic political theatre when…
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YouTube deletes comments critical of China’s Communist Party
YouTube has been deleting comments critical of China’s ruling party because of a software flaw, the company said on Tuesday in response to criticism of the practice.Users of the online…
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China’s ‘bat woman’ at centre of coronavirus theories says her work helped identify new strain fast
The Chinese virologist at the centre of conspiracy theories over the coronavirus origin has publicly defended her work, saying it contributed to fast identification of the new pathogen and would…
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Church of Scientology hands out 50,000 coronavirus pamphlets resembling New Zealand government advice
Shops in New Zealand’s largest city have scrambled to remove thousands of Scientology booklets that resemble the government’s coronavirus posters, as the country slowly reopens after one of the world’s…