Pandemic
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Eleven days after lifting the lockdown and restriction of movement in the country, Ghana has recorded a 60 per cent increase in the number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus. President Nana Akufo-Addo had cited “severe difficulties for all of us across the country, especially for the poor and vulnerable” as a major reason for lifting…
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The Czech Republic has registered 18 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, which is a record-low increase, the Health Ministry said Sunday, updating the total to 7,755. On Saturday, the country reported 55 new cases. On Friday, it was 103. “Over the past 24 hours, only 18 people have tested positive for the…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an upshot of all types of scams. In the midst of a pandemic, the website of the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District was hacked and infected with ransomware. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned it has seen a five-fold increase in the number of cyberattacks directed at its staff, and email scams…
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A hoax text message claiming to come from the government’s newly launched coronavirus app is circulating online. Yesterday the COVIDSafe app was unveiled to help track cases of the virus in Australia and prevent community transmission. The app already has more than a million downloads. Off the back of privacy concerns about the data the…
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The Chinese city of Wuhan has no remaining cases in its hospitals, health officials said. But the country remains on alert for a second possible wave, with Beijing reimposing some of its lockdown measures and other cities seeing new quarantines, the Daily Mail reported. Wuhan and the province of Hubei were put in lockdown near…
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Barcelona have made renewing Marc-Andre ter Stegen’s contract an absolute priority. Therefore, they have spent months trying to come to an agreement, but they’re still a way off. After various rejected proposals, Barça feel talks cannot continue until they know the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. For that reason, they’ve told the goalkeeper that negotiations…
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Global deaths linked to the coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday, while confirmed cases of the virus are expected to hit 3 million in coming days. More than half of the fatalities have been reported by the United States, Spain and Italy. The first death linked to the disease was reported on Jan. 10 in Wuhan, China.…
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By now, it should be pretty widely known that washing your hands thoroughly and often, along with not touching your face, are some of the strongest tools in our arsenal right now in terms of limiting the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. But for those of you who still aren’t paying sufficient heed to those…
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Spain’s government lifted a home confinement rule for children under 14 years old after 44 days on Sunday. That decision by the Spanish government ends one of the most restrictive measures of its national lockdown to rein in a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed over 22,000 lives in the European country. Even Italy, with more…
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Pandemic preparedness and response interventions can be classified by their timing with respect to pandemic occurrence: the prepandemic period, the spark period, and the spread period, as shown in box 17.1. Whereas some interventions clearly fall under the purview of a single authority, responsibility for implementing and scaling up many critical aspects of preparedness and response…
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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned that the “worst is yet to come” in the global battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Tedros also addressed accusations on the part of US President Donald Trump that the WHO has not been transparent about Covid-19 from the outset of the…
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Turkmenistan, one of the few nations in the world that has reported no cases of the new coronavirus, insisted on Wednesday its official data was true and it was not fudging figures. “If there was a single confirmed coronavirus case we would have immediately informed … the World Healthcare Organization in line with our obligations,” Foreign Minister…
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Trump predicted earlier this month that the economy would take off like a “rocket ship once we get back to business.” But experts say the recovery will be far slower. “It’ll be a very gradual process regardless of what a governor says or the president says,” said Dr. Robert Blendon, a Harvard professor of health…
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Australia’s second biggest airline, Virgin Australia (VAH.AX), has become the first large corporate coronavirus casualty, announcing it will enter voluntary administration on Tuesday morning. The decision follows crisis talks held on Monday evening after the airline failed to secure a desired $1.4 billion lifeline from the federal government. In a statement to the ASX on Tuesday…
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Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus. More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, the government said Thursday. In all, roughly 26 million people — the…
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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned that the “worst is yet to come” in the global battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Tedros also addressed accusations on the part of US President Donald Trump that the WHO has not been transparent about Covid-19 from the outset of the…
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