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Day: August 8, 2021

NY Times: More Than a Million Students Failed to Show Up for Classes Last Year

A New York Times report says as the coronavirus swept across the U.S., more than 1 million children, many of them in poor neighborhoods, failed to show up for public school classes, either online or in person.  The steepest decline the report said was among kindergarten students. The newspaper said more than 340,000 kindergarten children did not show up for instruction. “In the country’s poorest neighborhoods, tens of thousands of 6-year-olds will begin first grade having missed out on a traditional kindergarten experience.” The Times said.  Kindergarten is where many youngsters receive their first exposure to numbers and letters and where they can

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Malawi Receives First Doses of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

BLANTYRE – Malawi has received its first consignment of Johnson & Johnson vaccines – a donation made by the United States under COVAX, a campaign to provide equitable access to COVID-19 shots worldwide. The arrival of 302,000 doses comes a few weeks after Malawi announced it will start inoculating its citizens with several COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to protect more of its population amid growing infections. Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda said the move aims to fill the gap created by the scarcity of the Britain-made AstraZeneca vaccines the country has been using. Speaking to reporters in Lilongwe, Chiponda sought to offer reassurances that the Johnson &

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