Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro denies testing positive for coronavirus
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Despite earlier reports in local media, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested negative for the illness, according to a post Friday on his official Facebook profile.
Some media had reported that Bolsonaro received an initial positive test result for COVID-19, but his official social media account later said tests were negative — and posted a photo of the leader making an offensive arm gesture to reporters earlier this year.
“Don’t believe the fake news media!” Bolsonaro wrote in all caps in Portuguese on Twitter.
Bolsonaro and a large Brazilian contingent met with President Trump and other senior US officials last weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
His communications secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, who also was on the trip, tested positive Thursday and is in quarantine.
Mayor de Blasio doubles down on keeping NYC schools openQuote:
Mayor de Blasio insisted New York City schools will remain open amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he said in an update on Friday evening.
de Blasio said attendance dropped Friday to 68%. This week's average was 84.2%, as compared to this time last year, which was an average of 92.4%.
"Many, many parents want us to keep schools open," de Blasio said. "Depend on it. Need it. Don't have another option."
New York City's teachers unions and a number of local politicians disagreed, worried about the risk of teachers and students being exposed to the disease.
More schools were closed in New York City Friday, as pressure mounted for officials to consider closing the largest public school system in the nation amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
City schools announced they will be implementing 'social distancing,' saying they will be canceling or offering web-based alternatives of extracurricular activities such as athletic games and practices, school-wide assemblies, parent-teacher conferences, school field trips, school plays, and recitals.
Two schools on Staten Island closed after a student tested positive for coronavirus: New Dorp High School and The Richard H. Hungerford School, a special needs school on the campus of the Michael J. Petrides Educational Complex.
Brooklyn College Academy, a public high school on Brooklyn College's campus, is also closed after a college student reported as positive.
Four Brooklyn Occupational Centers were also closed after a teacher self-reported as positive.
Meantime, all elementary Catholic academies and parish schools throughout the Diocese of Brooklyn, which includes Brooklyn and Queens, will close next week through March 20.
Mayor Goodman says media are ‘destroying’ Las VegasQuote:
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said Tuesday the media are “destroying” the city.
The media is frightening the public, she said, noting that Las Vegas is open for business.
Speaking during a Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board meeting, she invoked the words of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to make her point.
In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, ‘There is nothing to fear but fear itself.’ This fear has taken over the world and if you look and talk to doctors, I have yet to see a doctor who espouses the voice of social media and what the media is doing here.”
She said it’s time for everybody to come together and “figure out a way to take every cent that we can afford because I know we’re in a very, very challenging and difficult position here.”
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