The Latest: South Korea concerned about eroding vigilance

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported much than 2,000 caller cases of the coronavirus, approaching a one-day grounds acceptable past month, arsenic officials expressed interest astir an erosion successful national vigilance amid prolonged pandemic restrictions.

The 2,050 cases reported Wednesday was the sixth clip the regular summation came implicit 2,000 successful a span of a month, including a grounds 2,221 connected Aug. 11.

The superior Seoul and the adjacent metropolitan country person had the country’s toughest societal distancing rules abbreviated of a lockdown for 9 consecutive weeks. The measures unit nighttime clubs and churches to adjacent and prohibits backstage societal gatherings of 3 oregon much radical aft 6 p.m. unless the participants are afloat vaccinated.

The Health Ministry said people’s exhaustion and vexation with microorganism restrictions are becoming an expanding challenge. Highway traffic, recognition paper usage and different indicators of enactment and question are each rising, said Park Hyang, a elder ministry official, during a briefing.

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There’s interest that transmissions would worsen during the Chuseok holidays, the Korean mentation of Thanksgiving that comes successful 2 weeks.

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— Read AP sum of the pandemic astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic.

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina wellness officials are reporting 170 ongoing COVID-19 clusters successful K-12 schools oregon kid attraction settings.

The authorities wellness section says schoolhouse districts that don’t necessitate masks are seeing substantially much dispersed of the microorganism and hours of mislaid learning.

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Union County Public Schools, the state’s sixth largest district, had astir 1 successful 8 of its much than 41,000 students nether quarantine arsenic of Friday, aft the territory voted down a disguise request past month. The much than 5,200 students were placed nether quarantine aft 337 pupils tested affirmative for the microorganism past week.

Meanwhile, the Wake County Public School System, wherever masks are mandatory and which is 4 times larger than Union County Public Schools, has little than a 4th the fig of students quarantined. Data from the Wake County territory shows little than 1,300 of its much than 161,000 pupils were quarantined past week.

The play study authorities wellness officials updated connected Tuesday shows the Union Academy Charter School successful Monroe has the worst clump successful North Carolina, with 111 cases, including 98 among children. About 1 successful 20 of the charter school’s students were infected. Charter Day School successful Brunswick County has the adjacent highest clump of 81 infected children.

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ATLANTA — Another Georgia schoolhouse territory is switching to virtual learning, aft 3 schoolhouse autobus employees died from COVID-19.

The 9,700-student Griffin-Spalding County schoolhouse strategy made the announcement precocious Monday, citing a disruption successful pupil transportation.

Districts crossed Georgia are struggling to enactment up capable drivers and monitors to support buses running. In Savannah, immoderate autobus drivers staged a sickout for the 2nd time connected Tuesday aft a akin protestation Friday.

At slightest 210,000 Georgia students successful 54 districts and charter networks person had their schoolhouse schedules disrupted due to the fact that of COVID-19. Some districts person taken days off, immoderate shifted to every-other-day schedules and immoderate sent location idiosyncratic schools oregon grades. That’s much than 12% of Georgia’s 1.7 cardinal nationalist schoolhouse students.

The fig of COVID-19 patients successful Georgia hospitals remains supra 6,000, the highest level since the commencement of the pandemic. The fig of recently reported cases has decreased successful caller days, though cases stay adjacent all-time precocious levels.

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More than 34,000 COVID-19 cases person been reported among Georgia children aged 5-17 successful the 2 weeks ended Sept. 2, according to authorities data, with much than 125 corruption clusters reported successful K-12 schools during that period.

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SEATTLE — Fans attending astir pro sporting events successful Seattle volition soon beryllium required to amusement impervious they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 oregon that they’ve tested antagonistic for the virus.

The NFL’s Seahawks, MLS’s Sounders, NHL’s Kraken and MLB’s Mariners, on with the University of Washington and Washington State University, each announced updated policies Tuesday for fans attending games this season.

The Seahawks volition beryllium the archetypal to instrumentality the requirements, starting with their Sept. 19 location opener against Tennessee. Fans volition beryllium required to amusement impervious of vaccination oregon a antagonistic trial taken wrong 72 hours of the lawsuit to beryllium granted entry.

Team president Chuck Arnold said successful a connection that the measures volition let for a afloat stadium portion keeping the acquisition safe.

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Washington volition statesman an identical verification process for fans with its Sept. 25 location crippled against California. The Sounders volition statesman with their Oct. 3 lucifer against Colorado. Washington State said its verification process volition statesman successful October.

The Mariners said fans should program to supply impervious of vaccination for immoderate imaginable postseason games the squad hosts. The squad besides said each beforehand office, lawsuit unit and Mariners employees astatine squad operated facilities successful the U.S. were told successful precocious August they indispensable beryllium afloat vaccinated by Oct. 4 arsenic a information of employment.

While the different Seattle teams are permitting a antagonistic trial to summation entry, the Kraken volition lone let vaccinated fans astatine games.

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