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New Loan Program Offered to Hawaiʻiʻs Small Businesses

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COVID-19: Five deaths as 43 new cases reported in B.C.

Dr. Henry also asked people to avoid unnecessarily travel, particularly from the cities to "smaller communities where they may not be able to support you if you...

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First human trial of vaccine begins

Clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine being developed for the Coronavirus pandemic has started yesterday in the U.S., and a Microsoft network engineer has b...

University of Texas spring breakers test positive for COVID-19

A group of about 70 young adults travelled together on a chartered plane to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico about a week and a half ago, the Austin Public Health Depart...

Walmart to start taking workers' temperatures, providing gloves and masks

Any employee with a temperature of 100 degrees or higher will be paid for coming to work and sent home. To protect against spread of the novel coronavirus, Wa...

Bondi Beach hit with expanded testing for COVID-19

Authorities were zeroing in on areas where clusters of infections have been reported, following a sustained slow- down in new cases in recent days, to just over...

Coronavirus Treatment: FDA Issues Emergency Authorization Of Trump-Backed Anti-Malaria Drugs

The Food and Drug Administration in the United States on Tuesday, March 31, approved the use of chloroquine on patients suffering from Covid-19. The malaria...

Thirteen new cases of COVID-19 announced in Interior Health region Tuesday

She said once this first wave passes over the next three weeks, health officials have to then look out for the next wave. "Then we need to think about how to (e...

Loss of taste, smell key COVID-19 symptoms -British scientists' study

Lixin Xie of the Chinese PLA General Hospital in a statement . The World Health Organization last week announced that it is investigating the link. Nearly 60...

Coronavirus | 13-year-old boy from the United Kingdom dies

Mark Stephenson, director at the Madinah College in Brixton, said the youngster wasn't with family when he died, due to fears of transmission. "As of 5 pm on ...

Coronavirus Patients May Carry Virus for a Week after Symptoms Have Resolved

A new study has uncovered how long will patients still have the coronavirus COVID-19 disease after symptoms for the virus have disappeared. We know now th...

COVID-19: Vancouver Convention Centre to be repurposed into emergency hospital

Five hundred and seven people have recovered fully from COVID-19. Of those still affected, Henry said 106 are in hospital with 60 either in intensive or criti...

Australia's coronavirus death toll rises to 20 after another NSW death

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian this morning stressed people should stay inside. Hundreds of people ignored the 1.5metre social distancing guidelines, which ar...

British airlines ask furloughed workers to help at coronavirus hospitals

Soldiers from 1 Royal Anglian Regiment working in the ExCeL. Many others will also be assisting in other makeshift centres set up in different parts of the co...

Fitbit Charge 4 gets Global Positioning System, better sleep tracking for just $149

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French hospitals relocate patients amid record deaths

French well being authorities reported 418 new deaths from coronavirus on Monday, taking the whole to three, 024 or a rise of 16 %, making France the fourth n...

Health Ministry May Require Israelis to Wear Masks Outside the Home

Many Asian countries recommend citizens wear masks to fight the spread of the coronavirus, and the homemade masks have some prominent proponents in the US, incl...

World Health Organization official warns coronavirus epidemic far from over in Asia

The WHO does not expect any country to be safe, as the coronavirus will eventually get everywhere, said WHO technical adviser Matthew Griffith. "Preparing ...

Walmart will start taking employees' temperatures before shifts

Walmart will start taking temperatures and doing basic health screenings of all employees who report to work at stores, clubs and facilities. "Many associates...

Brampton man charged after faking COVID-19 case to get off work

Sarah Patten told Global News Monday afternoon. He added that the officer has been off work since March 16, and is now in self-isolation. Villers said "aggres...

Coronavirus deaths in United Kingdom jump by highest amount to date to 1,019

There are a total of 22,141 positive cases as of 0900 local time on March 30, the health ministry said. As of 9am Saturday, a total of 120,776 have been teste...

Magnet mishap puts would-be inventor of virus device in hospital

The 27-year-old, who studies pulsars and gravitational waves, said he was trying to combat boredom as well as Covid-19 when he began experimenting with four...

More PPE on the way for health care workers

They have to be exposed to sick patients, and showing symptoms themselves. All nursing staff, no matter where they work, must feel safe. BMA consultants commi...

Louis County Police officer tests positive for coronavirus as cases near 300

The department is not releasing any identifying information about the officer for privacy reasons, the release said. A second Princeton police officer has tes...

Navy Hospital Ship Arrives in NYC to Back Up Health Systems

Rear Adm. John Mustin, vice commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said in a statement released by the Navy , "The last time that this great hospital ship w...

Maharashtra tally soars up to 203, 34 people discharged

The businessman, who has offices and residences both at Pune and Thane, had been on ventilator support since his admission into Deenanath. The man's brother had...

Wuhan residents believe total coronavirus death toll could be 42,000

This means the ashes of 3,500 people are distributed every 24 hours. If one were to go by these estimates, it would imply that around 42,000 urns would be han...

UK: Coronavirus death toll climbs to 1,228

British health authorities said on Sunday that 19,522 people have now tested positive for Covid-19 in the UK. There have been a further 10 deaths of people ...

United States approves use of malaria drugs to treat COVID-19

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a statement that the authorization would allow for 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine donat...