Chicago says students will stay home, New York erects COVID-19 checkpoints

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past graffiti amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., August 4, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chicago will teach online only when school resumes in September, the mayor said on Wednesday, and New York City announced checkpoints at bridges and tunnels to enforce a quarantine on travelers from 35 states on a list of coronavirus hot spots.

The teachers' union and many parents in Chicago had objected to a plan to allow students the option of attending class in pods of 15 pupils twice a week.