Gretchen Whitmer's administration on Sunday ordered high schools and colleges to stop in-person classes, closed restaurants to indoor dining and suspended organized sports — including the football playoffs — in a bid to curb the state's spiking coronavirus cases. They were announced as Michigan faces surging COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations statewide and rising deaths. An order written by the state health department prohibits high schools, colleges and universities from offering in-person instruction. K-8 schools can continue with on-site classes due to lower transmission rates, though — as before — it is not required. The Michigan Education Association (MEA), the state's largest school employee union, said in-person learning should be paused for all grades.

Source: CBC News November 16, 2020 13:52 UTC