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]]>The Health Order that went into effect Friday night requires servers in restaurants to wear both cloth face coverings and face shields, to maximize protection against the coronavirus. City officials said they wanted to move quickly since restaurants might not have easy, immediate access to face shields this weekend.
"We want to provide our restaurants and workers with the protection they need," Mayor Robert Garcia said. "We will continue to implement programs to help our small businesses."Face shields are also a requirement in the county's health order, which is more stringent than surrounding counties due to the higher numbers of cases in Los Angeles County. Long Beach adopted the same requirement as Los Angeles County.
Restaurant representatives can pick up face shields in the parking lot of Long Beach Fire Department Headquarters at 3205 Lakewood Blvd. Shields are limited to five per location, and will be available on a first come, first served basis.
Shields are available for pickup Saturday from 1-4 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
source: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/coronavirus/long-beach-making-1000-face-shields-available-to-restaurants/2371058/
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A transparent plate that is distributed to the students' desks, a "face shield" to prevent splashes.
The Kasuya Town Board of Education distributed about 5,400 face shields to reduce the risk of infection to children, students, and faculty members of all six elementary and junior high schools in the town who resumed their classes on the 25th.
Of these, Kasuya Junior High School is supposed to wear it at school except for school lunch and physical education, disinfect them before leaving school, and store them at school.
The students said, "It's a little hot because I wear a mask, but I think it's okay to be able to prevent infections."
With the coming of full-scale summer, the school says, "We would like to respond flexibly to the heat depending on the physical condition of the students, such as measures against the heat, and to help the students and their parents with peace of mind."
SOURCE: https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/45530
But as restrictions have slowly been lifted there have also been case spikes across Germany linked to slaughterhouses, restaurants, religious services, nursing homes and refugee shelters.
The country’s current raft of coronavirus measures is due to expire on June 5. Over the weekend, the governor of the state of Thuringia, Bodo Ramelow, said he hopes to lift the blanket rules on social distancing on June 6 and replace them with more targeted measures.
Germany’s 16 states are responsible for imposing and lifting restrictions and all currently have physical distancing requirements and an obligation to wear masks on public transit and shops. Thuringia’s new approach would raise pressure on other states to ease their rules further.
Government spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told reporters that Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to continue “bravely, and carefully” with easing restrictions, but pushed back against the idea that all measures will be lifted.
“We want to hold onto the fundamental rules for distancing, hygiene and contact restrictions,” he said, adding that Merkel favors “binding orders.” Seibert cited recent outbreaks following a Baptist service in Frankfurt and at a restaurant in the country’s northwest as examples of what can happen if rules aren’t followed.
Following Ramelow’s announcement, the neighboring state of Saxony said Monday that it, too, is aiming for a “paradigm change” on pandemic rules from June 6 if infections remain low.
At the same time, the interior minister of Bavaria, the state that has seen the most coronavirus infections and borders Thuringia to the south, called Ramelow’s plans “irresponsible.”
“We will certainly not stand by and watch Ramelow carelessly destroy great successes in the fight against the highly dangerous coronavirus,” Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the Funke media group.
Merkel is due to hold talks with governors Wednesday.
Federal and state officials agreed earlier this month that restrictions would be re-imposed if there are more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a city or county within a week.
As it stands, Germany’s public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute, said Monday that several states reported no new cases overnight, and that the overall total grew by only 289. The seven-day reproduction factor, defined as the mean number of people infected by an infected person, remained under 1 at 0.93, indicating a contraction of new cases.
Health Minister Jens Spahn cautioned, however, against giving the impression that the pandemic is over.
Spahn told tabloid paper Bild that “on the one hand we are seeing whole regions where there are no new reported infections for days. And on the other hand local and regional outbreaks in which the virus is spreading quickly again and immediate intervention is required.”
As the pandemic ebbs, officials across Europe are on the lookout for any spike in the number of infections that could indicate a second wave.
There have been several clusters of COVID-19 among slaughterhouse workers in Germany in recent weeks, prompting a government pledge to crack down on conditions in the industry.
Many workers in German abattoirs are migrants from Eastern Europe employed by subcontractors. They often live in shared housing and are transported to and from the slaughterhouses by shuttle bus, increasing the likelihood of infection.
On Monday, Dutch regional health authorities said tests showed 147 of 657 employees at a meat processing plant across the border in the Netherlands were positive for COVID-19.
They said 79 of those infected live in Germany, while 68 are residents of the Netherlands.
In other, non-connected outbreaks in Europe, a mine in the Czech Republic stopped work after tests of about 2,400 people revealed 212 with the coronavirus, mostly miners and their family members.
And across the continent in Portugal, health officials said tests of 346 people at the warehouse near Lisbon returned 121 positive cases.
Wary of a new resurgence of the coronavirus, authorities said they are carefully monitoring the outbreak at the warehouse, a national distribution center for supermarket goods.
SOURCE: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200526/p2g/00m/0in/026000c
An "izakaya" Japanese-style pub in Osaka has started distributing free face shields for use by its customers in the hope of regaining drinkers after the coronavirus state of emergency was lifted last week.
The izakaya offering hot-pot dishes in Osaka's Chuo Ward introduced the novel step on Monday. The transparent face shields protect against droplets in face-to-face socializing and allow customers to enjoy drinking safely.
"I think it is a good idea. It's one way to enrich the new lifestyle" that people will need to adopt to prevent the coronavirus from spreading widely again, said a female customer in her 30s who sipped whiskey and soda through a straw while wearing the face shield.
In Osaka, western Japan, a state of emergency over the coronavirus spread that had been in place since April 7 was lifted last Thursday, leading to a relaxation of curbs on business operations.
The izakaya owner Tetsuo Miyama, 43, said sales for April were just 30 percent of what he would have expected in the month without the pandemic as the pub had to shorten its operating hours under the state of emergency.
He expressed hope that the face shields will help attract customers who refrained from going out during the emergency.
source: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/05/d0c10a1bf0ac-osaka-pub-gives-free-face-shields-to-customers-as-anti-virus-measure.html
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Popular Beverly Hills personal training gym, Element Fitness, announces the launch of a website – 1800shields.com to make stylish face coverings easily accessible to people
May 19, 2020 —
Element Fitness has again reiterated their goal of helping as many people as possible in California to stay fit and healthy with the launch of a new website to sell protective face shields for protection amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 1800shields.com was created to make stylish face shields easily accessible to millions of people across the state of California and will be selling the protective shields in affordable multipacks as well donating 10,000 face shields to hospitals in the U.S.
“The decision to create 1800shields.com was born out of the need to help protect the people of Los Angeles and California as a whole amid the ravaging coronavirus pandemic. The website was launched during the stay-at-home order to sell protective face shields for people that have to go to public spaces and offices. But more importantly, we are concerned about the health of not only our customers but also health workers and we are working towards donating 10,000 shields to protect our real heroes,” said President of Element Fitness, Ryan Whitfield.
The face shields combine style and comfort, with an elongated curved-shape design that ensures maximum coverage and protection from particle droplets, spray, splatter, saliva, wind, smoke, and debris.
Each mask undergoes strict sterilization and is individually packaged and inspected to ensure product quality. Every order will be shipped directly from Beverly Hills, California, and delivered as promptly as possible.
For more information about the protective shields from 1800shields.com and how to order them, please visit – www.1800shields.com.