Public schools across Puerto Rico reopened Wednesday for the first time in nearly a year despite the pandemic, with officials reporting scarce attendance amid COVID-19 concerns, the disease caused by the CCP virus. Of the island’s 858 public schools, 95 were authorized to reopen because they were located in a municipality with a low number of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases and also met a list of requirements issued by Puerto Rico’s Health Department. Among them was the Ramón Marín Solá primary school in Guaynabo, where parents adjusted their children’s masks before hugging them goodbye. UK Variant Has Significantly Higher Death Rate, Study Finds A highly infectious variant of the CCP virus that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30 percent and 100 percent more deadly than previous dominant variants, researchers said on Wednesday. In a study that …