New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy officially announced that gymnasiums could reopen next Tuesday and thanked the “many guilty gym owners” who worked with state officials and followed fitness guidelines.
Limited-capacity gym categories will also be allowed, Murphy said. In addition to mandatory mask use and other rules, records must be kept up-to-date so that touch trackers can track others in the event of an outbreak.
“Gyms are among the most challenging indoor environments,” Murphy said. “But given where we are in this fight, we believe we are in a position to take this step forward. I know it took a long time to get here.
In an obvious reference to Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, where owners have continually challenged state directives by reopening them to consumers in an increasingly debatable impasse, Murphy acknowledged: “There have been some fools who are more interested in their own fame, frankly, than running with us to defeat the virus, but fortunately they are outnumbered by boys and smart girls.
The state added 288 more cases, Murphy said, and 11 deaths. The government’s transmission rate continues to fall to 0.80.
– Allison Steele
Philadelphia reported 116 new coronaviruses on Wednesday.
The city also reported thirteen deaths from COVID-19, all of which authorities said had occurred in the last 3 weeks. A total of 1,749 Philadelphians have died from coronavirus.
Last week, Philadelphia had the lowest daily average of new instances shown and the lowest positivity rate at COVID-19 controls since mid-March. These averages are likely to accumulate, as the effects of delayed controls were reported this week, Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said, though trends are moving in an encouraging direction.
Laura McCrystal
Philadelphia is one to two days in trash and recycling this week, the city said Wednesday.
Residents deserve to get rid of the trash and recycle their normal days of collection, the city said in a press release. Delayed waste for 3 days or more and delayed recycling five days or more can be reported to the city by 311.
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Laura McCrystal
Pennsylvania reported 501 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday. The Commonwealth has recently recorded an average of 627 new instances consistent with the day over the more than seven days, according to an inquiry through Inquirer, the lowest number of new instances since early July.
The Ministry of Health said 156132 coronaviruses were administered between 19 and 25 August, with 4,456 positive cases, a positive rate of around 2.85%. Overall, 130536 Pennsylvania citizens have tested positive for coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic.
At least 7624 Pennsylvanians have died after contracting coronavirus, and on Wednesday 19 new deaths were reported. Of the deaths in the state, 5,155 occurred among care or nursing citizens.
Rob Tornoe
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new rules for retailers: don’t argue with consumers who refuse to wear masks.
The fitness firm identified the policies that stores have used to curb the spread of the new coronavirus: requiring workers and consumers to wear a mask, appointing workers to social estrangement rules, and restricting the number of consumers admitted to stores.
But when things go wrong, the company warns stores and their workers to beware of office violence in the form of threats, verbal attacks, and physical attacks. The firm recommended the following tactics for possible cases of office violence in interactions between employers, workers and clients:
Retailers entrust workers with an obligation to apply mask guarantees to consumers entering their stores. Walmart, Costco, Target and other stores that have followed similar store policies have noticed that incidents go viral in which consumers who have been asked to wear a mask have burst into verbal quarrels and even violence.
There is no national court order for masks, however, many local and state governments, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, have issued theirs. Mixed messages and industry variable policies have politicized the use of the mask, despite the CDC’s recommendation that the mask may help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
– The Washington Mail
The Interacademic League announced on Wednesday the suspension of the interscholasting sports festival until the end of the qualifying year due to disorders with COVID-19.
The resolution follows resolutions made in recent days through the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which postponed fall sports for its best schools, the final end of the Philadelphia Catholic League, as well as the Philadelphia Public League, the League of Val and the League of Friends Schools.
“This resolution was taken with respect to the unprecedented fitness issues we faced and respecting the firm advice of Governor Wolf and the updated policy councils of the CHOP Policy Lab,” the league said in a statement.
The Inter-Ac League includes solid sports systems in schools such as Episcopal Academy, Malvern Prep, Germantown Academy, Penn Charter, Haverford School and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
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– Phil Anastasia
When Gyms in New Jersey are able to reopen on Tuesday, September 1, they must operate at 25% capacity, and buyers should wear a mask at all times. The device will have to be six feet away, other people will have to indicate a fitness discharge and the gym will have to keep a record of all customers.
Frank Trumbetti, co-owner of Atilis Gym Bellmawr, criticized the protocol for being lenient with the protective measures taken through it before it closed.
“We are surprised that your protocol is so pathetic,” Trumbetti said. “You kept the gyms closed now for 164 days and your protocol is that? Why are they keeping us closed?”
Atilis required a social distance, provided the visitor with his own bottle of disinfectant spray and took the other people’s temperature when they arrived, among other measures. Masks were originally required in the gym, but are no longer required.
Because Atilis lost his advertising license, he became a volunteer and a support center for New Jersey Senate candidate Rik Mehta. Trumbetti said the gym still had gadgets and that other people can just train, but when they enter, other people will have to point out a way that confirms that they are on site as volunteers for Mehta’s campaign. They no longer settle for club fees, but new gym users can donate to their GoFundMe.
“Was it valuable? Absolutely,” Trumbetti said. “If we didn’t do everything we did, he wouldn’t make that announcement today.”
“Our fight is not to open our gym. Our fight is to save us from the final again,” he said. “This is our constitutional right. They don’t have the strength to do what they do, and they should hold them accountable for it.”
– Ellie running
Montclair State University in North Jersey has suspended 11 on-campus housing scholars for violating coronavirus restrictions through parties, according to a message received through the Bergen Record.
The text message, which the newspaper said it sent to academics over the weekend, said academics had “gathered in giant teams to party without a mask and without social estrangement.”
Montclair is one of the few universities in New Jersey that allows academics to return to campus and their dormitories, most courses still perform virtually. Rutgers and Princeton resorted to distance learning during at least the fall semester.
As of August 20, the school reported that a total of 65 students, college students and had tested positive for coronavirus.
Rob Tornoe
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will announce Wednesday that gyms can reopen, meet reduced capacity limits and other protection restrictions against coronaviruses, according to a management officer.
The announcement, which was first reported through NJ.com, will be made at the normal murphy coronavirus briefing on Wednesday. The new one is expected to enter into force on 1 September.
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Gyms have been open on a limited basis since late June, and visitors can schedule personal workouts. Smaller yoga and martial arts studios were allowed to reopen last month.
Murphy’s resistance to the reopening of gyms led to a months-old confrontation with Atilis Gym owners in Bellmawr, who defied state rules on several occasions, welcomed domestic consumers without masks, were arrested and this month his advertising license was revoked.
– Allison Steele
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is causing fear among medical experts after silently reviewing its rules for coronavirus testing.
According to the new rules, other people who have been exposed to COVID-19 due to close contact who tested “don’t necessarily want a test” if they don’t show symptoms and are not “vulnerable” to the virus. The rules seem to contradict the findings of a wide variety of medical experts, adding Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who discovered that the virus can spread asymptomatically.
Admiral Brett Giroir, undersecretary of fitness for the Department of Health and Human Services who oversees coronavirus tests for the Trump administration, told NBC News in a statement that the new rules “have been updated to reflect existing evidence and more productive public fitness.” practices.”
“It’s confusing and regrettable,” CNN’s leading medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta said Wednesday morning. “Unfortunately, I think it’s a way to justify our low number of checks.”
“It doesn’t make any sense,” Leana Wen, a former Baltimore fitness commissioner, wrote on Twitter. “People without symptoms account for up to 50% of transmission. We want more evidence, no less.”
“It’s potentially dangerous,” Krutika Kuppalli, a doctor of infectious diseases in Palo Alto, California, told the New York Times. “I feel like it’s going to make things worse.”
Rob Tornoe
The Eagles are scheduled to kick off the season on September 13 against the Washington football team. The team home opens on September 20, but Philadelphia officials said the Eagles are unlikely to be allowed to fan in the stands due to coronavirus restrictions restricting outdoor meetings to 50 people. Philadelphia also canceled all the primaries until 2021.
Here’s how the other NFC East plans to deal with the fan challenge in the stands:
Rob Tornoe
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