Coronavirus
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Care and Treatment to Reduce the Severity of Pandemic Illness During a pandemic, health authorities work to reduce the severity of illness through patient care and treatment, which can help decrease the likelihood of severe outcomes such as hospitalizations and deaths. Treatments may range from nonspecific, supportive care to disease-specific drugs. During the prepandemic period,…
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The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation has said that the 15 Chinese nationals, who came into Nigeria and had been the subject of national controversy, are not treating patients but attending to “assigned mission” in the country. The CCECC in a statement on Twitter on Friday said the team were in the care of the…
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An eighth Amazon warehouse worker has died from coronavirus, as the company continues to wrestle with complaints about workplace safety, NBC News reported. The female worker was assigned to the packing area at a fulfillment center near Cleveland in North Randall, Ohio. She had worked with Amazon since November 2018. She was diagnosed April 30, which was…
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President Donald Trump vowed there will be no further economic shutdowns and federal sheltering advisories if a second wave of COVID-19 hits the U.S. “We’re not going to close the country,” Trump told reporters in a visit to a Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ford factory, which is now producing ventilators for the world amid the global coronavirus pandemic. “We’re…
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As the number of deaths fall for the third week running, 10,000 more people than average have died at home during the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of people in the UK who have lost their lives to coronavirus has now passed 40,000, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics. But the true death toll could…
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On April 14, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed a news conference at the White House, where he said that his administration would “halt [all] funding” for the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO, founded in 1948, is the principal United Nations agency tasked with the improvement of the health of the world; it is also widely…
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The number of deaths in Russia per 1,000 nationals decreased in January-March 2020 by 3.8 percent compared to the same period last year, while in March 2020 there was a slight increase in the number of deaths compared to March 2019, the Russian Health Ministry’s press service said. “The number of deaths per 1,000 nationals…
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British Housing Minister Robert Jenrick has said the United Kingdom is seeking ways to ‘slowly and cautiously’ relaunch economy. The minister’s statement comes ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s televised address where he is expected to announce measures to gradually ease the lockdown in the UK. The United Kingdom is looking to relaunch the economy…
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given diagnostic health care manufacturer Quidel Corp. emergency-use authorization for its COVID-19 antigen test, the first of its kind. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued the first emergency use authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 antigen test, a new category of tests for use in the ongoing…
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The latest White House staffer to test positive for COVID-19 has been identified, and it’s bad news not only for the person but for Mike Pence and President Trump. The staffer is Pence spokesperson Katie Miller, meaning she has been in close proximity to the vice president, reports CBS News. But Miller also is married to top Trump…
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An ethnic Chinese scientist working on the novel coronavirus in the United States has been shot dead in what police said was a murder-suicide over an “intimate partner”. Bing Liu, 37, was found dead at the weekend in his home on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, where he worked as a research professor. The body of…
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The Irish government has pledged €18 million to a joint global effort to defeat the coronavirus. The funds will go to GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, to support it’s work in procuring vaccines and distributing them to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries, including a vaccine for COVID-19 when it becomes available. Monday’s pledge brings…
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China’s exports rose 8.2 percent year on year in yuan terms in April while imports fell 10.2 percent, official data showed Thursday. Foreign trade of goods inched down 0.7 percent year on year in April to 2.5 trillion yuan ($352.5 billion), the General Administration of Customs said. China’s coal imports in April surged 22% from…
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Spain has recorded 185 new coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 25,613, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday, which marked the third consecutive day when the country registered less than 200 deaths caused by COVIVD-19. On Monday, the country confirmed 164 coronavirus-related deaths, the same number as on Sunday. The…
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Singapore medics have started giving remdesivir, an anti-viral drug originally developed to treat Ebola, to coronavirus patients as part of clinical trials, Dr Shawn Vasoo, the clinical director at the country’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases, told the CNA channel. According to Vasoo, those patients who have agreed to take part in the clinical trials…
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Russia has registered 10,102 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 155,370, the national coronavirus response center said Tuesday. A day earlier, Russia reported 10,581 new cases. The record daily increase of 10,633 cases was recorded on Sunday. “Over the past 24 hours, 10,102 COVID-19 cases have been registered in…
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