Global News published this video item, entitled “Global National: Sep 7, 2020 | Back-to-school during a pandemic gets put to the test” – below is their description.
It’s a big week for Canadian students with the bulk of them going back to school. This year’s list of back-to-school supplies now includes a mask, and the final touches are being put on classrooms to make them as safe as possible during a pandemic. But there is growing anxiety on how it will all unfold. Nobody knows if a return to the classrooms will be a return to the normal or if they’ll promote the spread of COVID-19. Ross Lord reports.
There are now more than 27 million COVID-19 cases worldwide. On Monday India overtook Brazil as the country with the second most infections as more than 4 million people have become sick with the virus. Signs of a second wave are appearing in several European countries. In the U.K. the government is squarely placing the blame on younger people who aren’t following the rules. And as Redmond Shannon reports, a scandal involving England’s national soccer team may prove that politicians have a point.
There’s a dire warning tonight from the Parliamentary Budget Officer of Canada. Yves Giroux says the federal government’s deficit spending is unsustainable unless it’s reigned in. But there are signs the purse strings aren’t being tightened. The Liberal government has been hinting at an ambitious plan to be revealed during the Throne Speech at the end of the month. Mike Le Couteur has the details.
Parts of California are under a state of emergency as wildfires rage across the state. More than 14,000 firefighters are battling 23 major fires. The flames have burned more than 600,000 hectares of land. More than 3,000 structures have been destroyed and eight people have been killed. Jackson Proskow has more.
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In This Story: Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas, as well as the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.
Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. Brazil is classified as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank and a newly industrialized country.
California, a western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. Its terrain includes cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland and the Mojave Desert. The city of Los Angeles is the seat of the Hollywood entertainment industry. Hilly San Francisco is known for the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and cable cars.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
Symptoms of coronavirus
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
a persistent new cough (non productive, dry)
a high temperature (e.g. head feels warm to the touch)
shortness of breath (if this is abnormal for the individual, or increased)
Latest News about Covid-19
Below are stories from around the globe related to the 2020 outbreak of novel Coronavirus – since the WHO gave the Covid-19 naming. Most recent items are posted nearest the top.
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by land area, and the most populous democracy in the world. New Delhi is the capital.
It has an exceptionally diverse population, with Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and other religions speaking over 21 recognised languages.