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PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS & SPREAD THE WORD!

A huge brewery is being built in the nearby city of Mexicali, and Gallegos – like many others – fears it will suck up what little water remains to make beer for export to the US.”

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Gallegos and other farmers see themselves as the victims of an unhealthy deal between the state government of Baja California and Constellation Brands, the third biggest brewer in the US. They’re managing the water as if it were loot to be divvied up among them,” he said. “The government’s intention is to leave us with nothing, without land and without water.” 

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If this brewery was such a good deal wouldn’t it be [across the border] in Calexico or Las Vegas?” asked farmer Eduardo Cisneros, 75. “They just want cheap water and cheap labour.

Mexicali Resists, the local movement of farmers and residents, have been fighting this decision since it was announced. They have held demonstrations outside government offices and set up protest camps at the construction sites of these water pipes. They are asking to join them in a boycott of Constellation Brands. This includes the following beer, wine, spirit, and sparkling brands:

Alice White, Anderra, Arbor Mist, Ballast Point, Black Box Wines, Black Velvet, Blackstone, Blindfold, Blufeld, Cadet d'Oc, Casa Noble Tequila, Charles Smith Wines, Clos du Bois, Cook's, Corona brands, Cuttings, Diseno, Drylands, Estancia, Franciscan Estate, Funky Buddha Brewery, High West, Kim Crawford, Manischewitz, Mark West, Meiomi, Milestone, Modelo brands, Monkey Bay, Mount Veeder Winery, Mouton Cadet, Night Harvest, Nobilo, Pacifico, Paso Creek, Paul Masson Brandy, PopCrush, Primal Roots, Ravage, Ravens Wood, Red Guitar, Rex-Goliath, Robert Mondavi brands, Roget, Rosatello, Ruffino, Saldo, Saved, Selaks, Serpent's Bite, Simi, Simply Naked, Svedka Vodka brands,  Taylor, The Dreaming Tree, The Hogue Cellars, The Prisoner, Thorn, Thorny Rose, Toasted Head, Tocayo Brewing Company, Tom Gore Vineyards, Urlo (scream), VNO, Vendange, Victoria, Wild Horse Winery & Vineyards, Wild Irish Rose, and Woodbridge.

“We’re already having water shortages. Now imagine when the plant starts working.”- Mexicali Resists protester, Ana López. “

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January 16 2018 -  For more than one year, residents of Mexicali have been organizing against the construction of a brewery and aqueduct by the U.S. company Constellation Brands. If completed, the facility would produce beer for export to the U.S. and consume seven to thirty million cubic meters of water annually. (A city of one million uses around 20 million cubic meters.) Earlier this month, members of Mexicali Resiste began blockading aqueduct construction. On January 16, state and local police forces attacked the blockade and an hours-long confrontation ensued. While the blockade was successfully defended, at least five were arrested and ten injured. [video]

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NPR: As Big Beer Moves In, Activists in Mexicali Fight To Keep Their Water  #ConstellationBrands #MexicaliResiste

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From the Anti-Fascist Black Metal Network

When we created the Antifascist Black Metal Network, we were fed up with how fascism, racism, LGBTQIA+phobia, sexism, ableism, and other oppressions were pervasive in black metal and wanted to do something about it. Our first objective was to create a space in which leftist artists could publish their music without helping platform questionable ideologies and musicians, and our YT channel is gradually becoming a reference in that - at the time this text is being written, we have already uploaded bands from 24 different countries, with a lot more to follow. However, we also wanted to fight fascism and stand for the exploited and oppressed in realms other than black metal, bridging fans and musicians of our beloved style and the struggle in reality. We are a collective of 20+ people of differing opinions and political lines, but some things are consensual, and one of them is helping the politically persecuted - those attacked with law, police, and prison by the State of the ruling classes and its institutions for standing up for their communities. So this compilation, the first in what we hope is be a long sequence, is an opportunity for us to promote some of the bands that we uploaded, newer ones especially, but also to gather money to support two groups that are currently being targeted for their social activism. One of them is Mexicali Resiste, a movement in Baja California, northern Mexico, that fights against the attempts at the takeover of the region's water by US brewery Constellation Brands. MR organized marches, encampments, and boycotts against the privatization of the already strained Colorado River, suffered savage police repression and absurd charges, and after years of struggle were successful in pressuring Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to cancel the company's construction and water permits. In retaliation, the State Congress has decided to again sue the activists with slanderous charges. The other people we want to help are three anarchists from Italy, Beppe, Robert, and Natascia, that were the target of a police operation, "Operation Prometeo", and accused of terrorism. They were kept under arrest for years, suffering arbitrary transfers from one of the peninsula's prisons to another. The comrades were finally acquitted, but are now saddled with heavy debt due to defense costs, etc, much like Mexicali Resiste. The tracklist is a small sample of bands that we have promoted here in these past months. Things begin very melodically with Nachtschwarz, Prosperity Gospel, Etxegiña, and Tyrannus before going into an almost DSBM and atmospheric break with Kluizenaer, Spectral Lore, and Gråt Strigoi. The second half jumps to a rawer melodic line as Tumultuous Ruin, Winter Lantern, and Sofrimento say their parts, before shifting to a higher, at times epic tone with Bring Forth the Exodus, Lerna, Cultum Draculesti, and closing with Iravu. In this compilation, we have modern music and old-school music, bands with LGBTQIA+ and POC musicians, hailing from three different continents. This is not a coincidence, as we obviously believe black metal must be open to diversity, but we also believe our genre must take a side in the struggle against capitalism, which is the side of the oppressed sectors, but also of the exploited classes, without reductionism; thus, "Black Metal Ist Klassenkrieg!!!" is a statement in itself, as well as a tongue-in-cheek reference to a phrase well-known in black metal. Understand that all of this, involved in the beautiful art of our own resident Le Petit Metalleux Illustré, is only the beginning: we have come to take fire and frostbitten hell to fascism, capitalism, and oppression of any kind. Beware, o Nazis north and south, for our maces shall soon find thine skulls! Go support the compilation here: https://antifascistblackmetalnetwork.bandcamp.com/album/black-metal-ist-klassenkrieg for more information about Operation Prometeo, refer to: malacoda.noblogs.org/post/tag/operazione-prometeo/ for more information about Mexicali Resiste, refer to: https://www.facebook.com/mexicaliresiste

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Meanwhile, walking past the Lower Dells Docks junction in Wisconsin Dells ...

YOGI BEAR, who for some reason managed to flee Jellystone Park and wind up in the Waterpark Capital, and take note of the sign for the Mexicali Rose restaurant: Hey, Boo-Boo--take a look at this sign--"Chicago Tribune Says 'An Absolute Must!'" Sheesh!! And you thought the waterslides were somehow all the more important around here!

BOO-BOO, as somehow tagged along: Still, even if this were Jellystone, the ranger isn't going to like hearing about our presence in such a Mexican restaurant as this!

YOGI BEAR: Pshaw and all that, Boo-Boo!

[Unbeknownst to those bruin buddies--]

CRAZY CLAWS, sneaking up behind the ursine pair: Talk about "absolute musts" in Wisconsin Dells--as if Mexicali Rose getting the attention of The World's Greatest Newspaper and calling it an Absolute Must wasn't enow, let alone the breakfast joints--Paul Bunyan's, the Country Keg, Mr. Pancake, BJ's, Denny's Diner--and for some reason, Paul Bunyan's gets all the attention!

BOO-BOO: And I heard such is an all-you-can-eat thing!

CRAZY CLAWS: True, true, and even then, the gift shop can get to be a little cheesy in its own right! But for my own money and my pancakes, go to Mr. Pancake. Better yet, try the Belgian waffles, and is it any wonder The Banana Splits can't resist their Hot Fudge Banana Split Waffle (as if befitting their name)?

(Whence Yogi and Boo-Boo cannot resist laughing uproariously even as they spontaneously decide to hoof it to the Dunkin' kitty-corner from Mexicali Rose for donuts and coffee, trying not to scare the wits out of locals as much as tourists.)

CRAZY CLAWS: Meanwhile, you have to imagine where the Cattanooga Cats would likely have THEIR breakfasts when they pass through the Dells ... but then again, I hear they can't resist playing the Riverside Terrace downtown ...

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Una mujer de Mexicali Resiste enfrentándose a la policía que protege a una compañia extranjera que se quiere apropiar el agua del pueblo. Esta foto dice lo que muchos mexicanos pensamos: ¡Aquí no hay miedo! ¡Aquí hay coraje y voluntad para pelear por lo que nos pertenece! #NoEstanSolos ¡El agua es vida y la vida se defiende!

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Mexicali Resiste denuncia que Constellation Brands acarrea y compra votos durante consulta | SinEmbargo MX Entre acusaciones de irregularidades, acarreos y hasta compra de votos se lleva a cabo la consulta sobre la operación de la cervecera de Constellation Brands en Mexicali, Baja California.

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“Repo Man” Soundtrack, 1984. Today I’m spinning the soundtrack to the first film I ever saw starring Harry Dean Stanton, who died this past Friday (September 15th) at 91. Repo Man’s soundtrack was a who’s who primer of California punk (with godfather Iggy Pop in the mix with the title track “Repo Man”), introducing SoCal hardcore to the masses. Black Flag’s “TV Party” and “Coup D’Etat” by The Circle Jerks are perfect selections for the Emilio Estevez’s Otto: jaded, bored and broke. So, too, are Suicidal Tendencies’ “Institutionalized” and Fear’s “Let’s Have a War,” both punk classics and particularly popular among my group of friends in the mid-80′s. The more offbeat art-punk track and the endlessly quotable “Pablo Picasso” written by Jonathan Richman of the Modern Lovers (”Well some people try to pick up girls/And get called assholes/This never happened to Pablo Picasso/He could walk down your street/And girls could not resist his stare and so Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole”) and The Plugz’s Mexicali “Hombre Secreto” complete the film’s surreal storyline and southern California setting.

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Cool customer Susan W says, “I adore my provincial tapestry bedspread!!!” and it looks like her cute kitty agrees! We can’t resist photos of pets being adorable around their parents’ Mexicali gear. Be sure to tag us in your pics so we can see and “Squeeeeee!” 😍 #mexicaliblues #magicalmexicali #blockprint #bedspread #kitteh https://www.instagram.com/mexicaliblues/p/BvhmSgxn-4Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=q55pm69czjx2

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Boycott Modelos, Coronas and Pacificos!

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Congreso cancela sesión, manifestantes a la puerta

Congreso cancela sesión, manifestantes a la puerta

Mexicali, Baja California.—

Por Martín Bojórquez

Desde muy temprano la noticia empezó a recorrer los pasillos y oficinas del edificio del Congreso del Estado, la sesión de este jeuves 28 de septiembre se cancelaba, pues había la amenaza fundada, que de nueva cuenta los manifestantes de Mexicali Resiste y Baja California Resiste pretendían estar en las butacas del pleno, pues los diputados…

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Mexicali Resiste exige a diputados cancelar contratos para obras de infraestructura

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Mexicali Resiste exige a diputados cancelar contratos para obras de infraestructura

MEXICALI, BC (apro).- Guardias de seguridad del Congreso local se enfrentaron con un grupo de activistas que protestaban frente a las instalaciones del recinto para exigir que no se aprueben obras de infraestructura cuyo costo asciende a 9 mil millones de pesos con cargo al erario. La mañana de este jueves, los guardias cerraron los […]

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Mexicali Resiste // Enfermero despedido le pide a Kiko Vega.

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The Latest: Sweden's expert criticizes inclusion on WHO list

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The Latest: Sweden's expert criticizes inclusion on WHO list

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A member of the Bundeswehr takes a coronavirus test on a woman from Warendorf at a corona smear site in Oelde, Germany, Thursday, June 25, 2020 Because of the corona outbreak at the meat producer T’nnies in Rheda-Wiedenbr’ck, many people from the area cannot easily escape on holiday: In several popular regions at home and abroad, negative tests are demanded of them.

File—File picture taken June 23, 2020 shows medical staff taking COVID-19 tests of Toennies employees and their families who are quarantined behind fences in Verl, Germany, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Following the corona outbreak at meat processor Toennies in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck, the federal state authorities are massively restricting public life in the Guetersloh district with a lockdown.

People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus are reflected on a mirror at a shopping street in Tokyo Friday, June 26, 2020. Japan lifted a seven-week pandemic state emergency in late May, and social and business activity have since largely resumed.

Men wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus stand at a back ally bar street in Tokyo Friday, June 26, 2020. Japan lifted a seven-week pandemic state emergency in late May, and social and business activity have since largely resumed.

Civil protection and army officers stand at a road block in front of an apartment complex where dozens of COVID-19 cases have been registered among a community of Bulgarian farm workers, in Mondragone, in the southern Italian region of Campania, Friday, June 26, 2020. The governor of the region is insisting that the farm workers should stay inside for 15 days, not even emerging for food, and that the national civil protection agency should deliver them groceries.

File—File picture taken June 23, 2020 shows Toennies employees and their families being quarantined in their apartments behind fences in Verl, Germany, Following the corona outbreak at meat processor Toennies in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck, the federal state authorities are massively restricting public life in the Guetersloh district with a lockdown.

A vendor pushes an improvised cart with a woman and merchandise along a rarely used rail track in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 25, 2020. Daily life in the capital slowly returns to normal as the Thai government eases many restrictions imposed weeks ago to combat the spread of COVID-19. Though emergency regulations require the use of face masks in public, some residents have become apathetic as Thailand has record zero local transmission for over three weeks.

Shiraz Merchant wears a mask as he walks in a park Friday, June 26, 2020, in Houston. The number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise across the state. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has said that the state is facing a “massive outbreak” in the coronavirus pandemic and that some new local restrictions may be needed to protect hospital space for new patients.

Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey pauses as he speaks about the latest coronavirus data at a news conference Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Phoenix.

A health worker takes a swab test of a woman during a free medical checkup in Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 26, 2020. India is the fourth hardest-hit country by the pandemic in the world after the U.S., Russia and Brazil.

People wearing face masks to protect against the new coronavirus take photos near billboards honoring medical workers who responded to the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan at a public park in Beijing, Friday, June 26, 2020. China reported a further decline in new cases Friday with about a dozen mostly in Beijing, where mass testing has been done following an outbreak that appears to have been largely brought under control.

A worker wearing a face mask to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus cleans near a bank’s currency advertisement board in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, June 26, 2020.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 51 more confirmed coronavirus cases as new clusters emerge in the densely populated Seoul area where people have been increasingly venturing out despite government warnings against complacency.

Thirty-five of the new cases are in the capital region, which is at the center of a COVID-19 resurgence threatening to erase earlier gains against the virus.

Authorities are struggling to trace contacts and predict infection routes as new clusters pop up. Hundreds of infections have been linked to nightspots, church gatherings, restaurants and low-income workers who couldn’t afford to stay home.

Officials are resisting calls to reimpose stronger social distancing guidelines, concerned about hurting the economy.

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:

— Virus taking stronger hold in US, other populated countries

— Governors who quickly reopened backpedal as virus surges

— After waves of COVID deaths, care homes face legal reckoning

— Hospitals in the capital of Venezuela’s main oil-producing state are filled with coronavirus patients and dozens of health workers have been infected, witnesses said this week in the first reports of the pandemic overwhelming the country’s debilitated health care system.

— While India’s leaders have promised coronavirus testing and care for all who need it, regardless of income, treatment options are as stratified and unequal as the country itself.

— U.S. officials estimate that 20 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus since it first arrived in the United States, with millions never knowing they had it. Thursday’s estimate is roughly 10 times the 2.3 million cases that have been confirmed in the U.S.

— A government whistleblower ousted from a top scientific job alleges that the Trump administration is intensifying its campaign to punish him for revealing shortcomings in the U.S. coronavirus response.

Follow all of AP’s pandemic coverage at http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak

HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

BEIJING — China has reported an uptick in new coronavirus cases a day after national health authorities said they expected an outbreak in Beijing to be brought under control soon.

The National Health Commission said Saturday that 21 more cases had been confirmed nationwide in the latest 24-hour period, including 17 in the nation’s capital.

City officials have temporarily shut a huge wholesale food market where the virus spread widely, re-closed schools and locked down some neighborhoods. Anyone leaving Beijing is required to have a negative virus test result within the previous seven days. Many Chinese are traveling during a four-day holiday weekend that ends Sunday.

China has reported 83,483 cases and 4,634 deaths in the pandemic. It does not include in the numbers people who test positive but don’t show symptoms.

CANBERRA, Australia — Australian health officials are expecting more cases of COVID-19 as hundreds of nationals return from overseas to begin mandatory quarantine.

About 300 people are due to arrive in Adelaide this weekend from Mumbai, India, while hundreds are expected to follow from South America and Indonesia.

People in hotel quarantine will be tested for the coronavirus at the start and end of their 14-day isolation.

South Australia state Health Minister Stephen Wade says he is preparing for about 5% to 10% of returnees being infected, as was the case when people arrived from Indonesia in other states.

Melbourne reported 30 new cases Friday, continuing a run of double-digit increases that has more than tripled Victoria state’s active cases to 183 in just over a week.

In all, Australia has had 104 COVID-19 deaths and nearly 7,600 confirmed cases.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has surpassed 5,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients for the first time as Gov. Greg Abbott continues a dramatic retreat in his aggressive reopening of America’s second-biggest state.

In Houston, county officials Friday elevated a public threat warning system to the highest level. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said “We never brought the curve all the way down. We only flattened it.”

Hospitalizations in Texas, reported by state health officials, have now skyrocketed more than threefold over the past month. New records are set daily, and Abbott has brought back a ban on elective surgeries to free up beds.

His latest orders shuttered bars indefinitely and ordered restaurants dining rooms to scale back on seating customers.

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he wants an agricultural Southern California county to reimpose stay-home orders amid a surge in positive coronavirus tests there and through much of the state.

Imperial County, with a population of 175,000 people on the state’s border with Mexico, has been the slowest in the state to reopen amid continued high positivity rates, which have averaged 23% in the last week, compared with 5.7% statewide.

The Imperial Valley, which provides many of the vegetables in U.S. supermarkets in the winter, lies across the border from Mexicali, a sprawling industrial city of 1 million people that has enormous influence on its economy and culture.

Newsom said San Francisco is also pausing plans to reopen businesses that were expected to open Monday, such as hair salons, museums and outdoor bars.

NEW YORK — A federal judge has blocked New York state from enforcing coronavirus restrictions limiting indoor religious gatherings to 25% capacity when other types of gatherings are limited to 50%.

Judge Gary Sharpe acted Friday to enjoin Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Letitia James from enforcing some of the capacity restrictions put in place by executive order to contain the spread of the virus.

A spokesperson for Cuomo said the governor’s office will review the decision. A spokesperson for the New York City law department said city lawyers would review the ruling as well.

NEW ORLEANS — The number of reported COVID-19 cases in Louisiana took another large one-day jump, increasing Friday by more than 1,300 as the number of people hospitalized with the disease caused by the new coronavirus continued upward.

The state reported a total of 54,769 confirmed cases as of midday. The death toll was 3,077, up by 26 from Thursday.

Some of the growth in known case numbers can be attributed to increased testing. However, the number of people sick enough to be hospitalized — considered a key indicator that the virus is spreading — went up to 700. The figure is down from nearly 2,000 in April but up from a low of 542 on June 13.

The increasing numbers led Gov. John Bel Edwards this week to delay plans to further lift restrictions on public gatherings and some business activity. Edwards has promised stepped up enforcement on businesses that aren’t complying with virus-related restrictions on capacity and requirements that employees dealing with the public wear masks.

Friday marked Louisiana’s second one-day spike of more than 1,300 this week.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida banned alcohol consumption at its bars after its daily confirmed coronavirus cases neared 9,000, almost double the previous record set just two days ago.

The Florida agency that governs bars announced the ban on Twitter, minutes after the Department of Health reported 8,942 new confirmed cases, topping the previous record of 5,500 set Wednesday.

More than 24,000 cases have been reported since Saturday, more than a fifth of the 111,724 cases confirmed since March 1. The department had not updated its death total, which still stood at 3,327.

The seven-day average for positive tests dropped slightly to 13.4%, down 1 percentage point from Thursday but still triple the rate of 3.8% of June 1. State officials have attributed much of the new outbreak to young adults flocking to bars after they reopened about a month ago.

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary with a scaled-down event because of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of many challenges a deeply divided world must tackle along with poverty, inequality, discrimination and unending wars.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Friday’s virtual commemoration of the signing of the U.N. Charter that “global pressures are spiraling up” and “today’s realities are as forbidding as ever.”

He said people continue to lose trust in political establishments and has spoken of rising populism threatening multilateralism and denounced xenophobia, racism and intolerance.

“Today’s marches against racism were preceded by widespread protests against inequality, discrimination, corruption and lack of opportunities all over the world – grievances that still need to be addressed, including with a renewed social contract,” he said in a video address.

“Meanwhile,” Guterres said, “other fundamental fragilities have only grown: the climate crisis, environmental degradation, cyberattacks, nuclear proliferation, a push-back on human rights and the risk of another pandemic.”

He stressed the urgent need for global cooperation.

“One virus … has put us on our knees, and we have not been able to fight it effectively,” Guterres told reporters Thursday. “It’s spreading now everywhere. There was no control, no effective coordination among member states. We are divided in fighting COVID‑19.”

ROME — Italy registered 30 more deaths of people with coronavirus infections on Friday, with 16 of them in Lombardy, the northern region that continues to still have by far the highest daily tally of new confirmed cases.

According to Health Ministry data, the nation confirmed 259 new cases since Thursday, raising to 239,961 the number of known coronavirus infections since Italy’s outbreak began in late February.

Deaths now total 34,708. Authorities say the number of overall cases and deaths is certainly higher, since many without serious symptoms didn’t get tested, and many died in nursing homes without being tested.

Meanwhile, Premier Guiseppe Conte said Italy’s classrooms will be receiving students starting on Sept. 14, more than six months after the government’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 shuttered schools, forcing millions of students to have lessons remotely.

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