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Cat found infected with coronavirus in Belgium

This would be the first case of a cat testing positive for the virus. Virologist Professor Steven Van Gucht said during a Public Health, Food Chain Safety and...

Coronavirus / Dogs being trained to sniff out coronavirus patients

Dr Claire Guest, CEO and Co-Founder of Medical Detection Dogs, says: "In principle, we're sure that dogs could detect COVID-19". The head of disease control a...

Frontline NHS staff first to receive new Covid-19 antigen tests

NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens added NHS staff would start being tested for coronavirus from next week, including critical care nurses, intensive care ...

Hospitals Consider Do-Not-Resuscitate Order For All COVID-19 Patients

New York City has about a third of the confirmed coronavirus cases in the country, making it the center of the outbreak in the United States. For now, officia...

Lawrence police officer tests positive for coronavirus

The officer has not been on duty since Monday, according to the release. The officer is now not hospitalized and continues showing mild symptoms of COVID-19, ...

Social distancing can reduce cases in Wuhan by 92%: Lancet

The measures despatched the numbers of latest instances tumbling, and elements of Hubei province, the place Wuhan is located, have slowly began returning to reg...

"You're A Fighter": PM's Get-Well-Soon Tweet To COVID

The health minister in the prime minister's Cabinet, Nadine Dorries, tested positive earlier this month. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed he ha...

States impose new restrictions on travelers from NY amid coronavirus outbreak

The number of confirmed cases in the Ocean State reached over 200 as of Friday which pales in comparison to the over 26,000 in New York City. But the most d...

Provincial government takes on price gougers

Individual offenders can be ticketed with a $750 fine, or if convicted in court, penalties of up to $100,000 and up to a year in jail. "If you're selling face...

Trump and Cuomo clash as president weighs NY quarantine

Speaking at the White House, Trump said "we might not have to do it, but there's a possibility sometime today" he will enact a quarantine. The measure wouldn'...

Former Bates lacrosse All-American induced in coma due to Coronavirus

Since moving him to U-Penn they've noticed small improvement in his oxygen levels. His health, then, continued to deteriorate until he had to be placed on a ven...

California bans evictions for 60 days, shielding tenants from coronavirus impact

The order extends the ban through May 31, suggesting that if tenants are unable to pay rent in April or May, they cannot be evicted for saying so - as long as t...

DeSantis Orders Attorney General To Investigate South Florida Hospital

DeSantis said they would probably be along the I-10 and U.S. Route 90 corridor at its northern border. "If you look at the numbers in the state of Florida, ...

Baker bans reusable grocery bags amid coronavirus pandemic

The Plastic Industry Association made a similar argument in a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services asking it to declare a ban on single-us...

Coronavirus deaths passes thousand mark in UK

The deaths included 168 people in England, eight in Scotland, six in Wales and three in Northern Ireland. The jump in deaths is the biggest day-on-day increas...

Coronavirus: Pictures of NHS Nightingale hospital show scale of expected emergency

JUST IN: Are you proud of how Britain has responded to deadly outbreak? He continued: "NHS staff are pulling all the stops in an unprecedented response to thi...

New Jersey hospital received shipment of 1,000 faulty N95 masks, spokesperson says

A notice to staffers sent by Jacobi Chief Medical Officer Michael Zinaman and Chief Nurse Officer Suzanne Pennacchio said "N95s can be re-used up to five days p...

Coronavirus: 405,000 volunteers step forward to help NHS through crisis

He added: "That's why we've given the clear instruction that people must stay at home unless they have one of the reasons we've set out". " NHS staff are pul...

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health shares information for expectant moms

While it has been largely posited that pregnant women are more at risk of contracting and developing severe symptoms of COVID-19, this arises from the gener...

US lab unveils portable 5-minute Covid-19 test

The IDNOW, from Abbott ( ABT ), is the first approved portable test and allows for an existing testing instrument used in 18,000 locations around the USA, to ...

Trump Seeks to Force General Motors to Produce Ventilators

Trump , to the dismay of state officials across the USA, has thus farrefused to utilizethe Defense Production Act to order private corporations to produce n...

Kious Kelly, Gay NYC RN, Reportedly Dies From COVID-19

A nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in NY died from COVID-19 after contracting coronavirus nearly two weeks ago. An unforgettable character. Honor his memory by n...

COVID-19 Will Stretch, But Not Break, BC's Health System

But planning is still of the essence, Henry said, and physical distance is more important than ever to further slow transmission. There have been no new death...

Ontario has 967 cases of COVID-19: Public Health Ontario

Ontario reported 170 new cases on Thursday , 100 on Wednesday and 85 on Tuesday. A total of 41,032 patients have been approved for COVID-19 testing to date i...

COVID-19: Alberta confirms 56 more cases

All dining rooms in restaurants still open are ordered to close immediately, with only take out and delivery allowed under the new measures. These closures ar...

Bernie Sanders demands Republicans stand down on unemployment objections

In a joint press release, Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) expressed concern with the latest draft of the bill....

Downstate Coronavirus Patients to Be Moved to Upstate Hospitals

Work is underway to convert the Javits Center in New York City into two temporary field hospitals. Cuomo said NY state has tested more people for coronavir...

92 deaths, 3,657 positive cases of COVID-19 confirmed in MI

If granted, Whitmer said it will help provide meals to those who need them, provide rental assistance for temporary housing, therapy for residents whose menta...

Lung damage seen in recently asymptomatic coronavirus patient

He now requires a ventilator to breathe and, according to an article on CNN , is failing even with that ventilator on its highest setting . Mortman also said...

Coronavirus Survivors' Antibodies Needed, Mount Sinai Doctor Appeals For Volunteers

Dr. Reich said all volunteers will be carefully screened to meet strict criteria. Donors will include people that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute r...