BELMONT — An elderly Allegany County resident has died of coronavirus, county health officials reported Monday afternoon, as the number of cases rose to nine.“To protect the family’s privacy, the only information we are releasing is that the person was over 60 years old and had other health conditions that could have compromised their recovery…
MARCH 30, 2020 -- As upper management patrolled the halls at one hospital in California, telling staff they could be fired on the spot for wearing N95 masks brought from home, one nurse asked to see the policy. The administrator told her that, if she was going to wear one, she needed a note from…
MARSHALL COUNTY, KY -- A Marshall County chemical plant is taking additional cleaning and sanitizing measures after one of its employees was diagnosed with COVID-19.The Marshall County Health Department reported over the weekend that two men in the county, both in their 30s, had tested positive for COVID-19. The cases do not appear to be…
Cirurgião alerta que pacientes que estão se recuperando durante a quarentena têm imunidade comprometida e devem ter cuidados extras com Covid-19
Mais de 8,7 milhões de idosos já foram vacinados contra a gripe em todo o país até o início dessa segunda-feira (30). Isso representa 42,12% do total desse público-alvo a ser alcançado. Em relação aos trabalhadores de saúde, foram vacinados 1,7 milhão (34,81%) da meta. O Ministério da Saúde já enviou 23 milhões de doses […]
Segundo Ministério da Saúde, todos os estados do país começam a receber testes rápidos que deverão ser usados para diagnóstico de Covid-19 em profissionais de saúde e segurança pública
Nesta segunda-feira (30), o Ministério da Saúde atualizou o número de casos a respeito do Coronavírus (COVID-19) no Brasil. A quantidade de casos confirmados subiu para 4.579 e o número de mortes chegou a 159.
A world-renowned NYC pediatric neurosurgeon who separated conjoined twins has died from coronavirus. Dr. James T. Goodrich, 73, died on Monday after complications related to Covid-19, the hospital where he worked announced. He separated twins Jadon and Anais McDonald four years ago at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City in a 27-hour surgery. Dr.…
Testing kits that are due to arrive in the UK were found to have been contaminated with coronavirus, according to reports. The Government claims there is currently a capacity to carry out 11,000 tests a day, while the aim is to carry out 25,000 tests per day by mid-April. Last week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock…
The stark findings were the result of a comprehensive study of COVID-19 and hospitalisations in mainland China. The study found that while the overall death rate from confirmed cases was 1.38 percent, the rate rose significantly depending on age – from 0.0016 percent in the under 10s, to 7.8 percent in 80s and over. However, in a…
Scientists around the world have been racing to develop treatments, cures and a vaccine for Covid-19, and are getting closer by the day. Jacob Glanville - one of the stars of Netflix documentary Pandemic - runs Distributed Bio, which has been working to find an antibody therapy. On Monday he tweeted that a development was…
There is growing concern over the relatively small number of tests being carried out in the UK. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images The UK has the capacity to process tens of thousands more tests for coronavirus but has failed to organise itself properly, a former director at the World Health Organization has said. Anthony Costello, a…
Yes it’s still early days. Yes there are still thousands of people who are ill, and hundreds who will sadly die.But it’s working. The nation was asked, and so far at least, we have acted. You are staying at home, protecting the NHS, saving lives.The afternoon press conferences have become an exercise in delivering bad…
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Last night, in a rare glimpse to the light at the end of the tunnel, the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance sad social distancing measures “were making a difference” in Britain. Transmission of coronavirus in the community is thought to be decreasing, which could mean fewer infections and hospital admission data suggests cases…
The UK could be hit by a national cardboard shortage as more and more local councils suspend their regular recycling collections owing to pressures caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the industry’s trade body has warned. The Recycling Association said it has huge concerns about a looming European and even worldwide shortage of fibre – used…
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Blackburn with Darwen borough public health director Dominic Harrison. BLACKBURN with Darwen’s public health director is calling on NHS England to share with councils detailed local coronavirus data collected from people who contact 111 about symptoms. Professor Dominic Harrison believes the information gathered by postcode could be ‘critical’ for local authorities planning for the next…
The new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread to nearly every country in the world since it first emerged in China at the beginning of the year. More than 784,000 people are known to be infected and more than 37,600 deaths have been recorded - including 1,4158 in the UK. What the UK lockdown means for you What is a…