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as of July 20. The retailer will place employees, dubbed “health ambassadors,” near entrances to “remind those without a mask of the new requirements,” said the company’s chief operating officer. The policy also applies to the company’s warehouse retailer Sam’s Club and follows similar rules made by Costco, Starbucks and Best Buy.
Olympic leaders’ decision to postpone the 2022 Youth Olympics by four years is raising questions about whether the. With the virus still surging, recent polls have shown the Japanese people remain skeptical about welcoming thousands of athletes, officials and fans to their country. The International Olympic Committee says it’s still working with the World Health Organization on plans that allow the Summer Games to take place in 2021.
After a person tests positive for the coronavirus, a contact tracer would get in touch with them and attempt to determine where they have been recently and who they were around. The main focus is on close contacts, or people who were within six feet of the infected person for at least 10 minutes or so.
Next, the tracer would track down those close contacts and ask them to self-isolate and get tested if needed. For those showing symptoms, the tracing process would be repeated. The whole effort gets more and more complicated if people have spent lots of time around family and friends, and inside bars, restaurants and other public indoor spaces. There’s also added pressure to act quickly — the longer a person goes without being alerted, the greater the risk they’ll spread the disease if they do have it.One added benefit of contact tracing is that it can provide data about the relative safety of different activities and environments.
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