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OU Medicine Announces New Clinical Trial to Treat COVID-19 Patients

Three of the 124 individuals who recovered from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have donated their blood to the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) in th...

Clark County inches toward 200 COVID-19 cases

Officials in Overland Park have announced the suburban Kansas City community's farmers market will not open this weekend as planned in an effort to curb the spr...

Coronavirus prompts CDC to extend ‘No Sail Order’ for cruise ships

According to the order, passengers or crew are not allowed to disembark at ports or stations unless permitted by the USCG, and can not embark or re-embark a cr...

What To Know If You're Wearing A Cloth Mask In Public

The CDC is now recommending cloth face coverings as a voluntary public health measure people can take to help slow the spread of coronavirus. Adams emph...

Clare's COVID-19 Total Nears 70 As Two New Cases Confirmed

It shows 132 positive cases in Cavan and 63 in Monaghan. 22 patients were being treated in the east of the country, two in the north west, two in the south an...

Kerala plans trials in convalescent plasma therapy against COVID-19

With Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan making it clear that the State would be exploring all now available treatment options the world over, Kerala has once aga...

Toronto recalls more than 60000 surgical masks over 'poor quality'

A spokesperson for the city confirmed yesterday that the masks were sent to Seven Oaks long-term care home, Kipling Acres long-term care home and Lakeshore Lodg...

Teen arrested after bragging about spreading coronavirus in Walmart

However, they are taking her social media actions very seriously. Identified as Lorraine Maradiaga of Carrollton, posted a series of concerning and weird vi...

Ontario's COVID-19 case count surpasses 6000, province confirms 22 more deaths

More than 2,500 patients have made full recoveries from the disease, or about 41 per cent of the province's total. Officials say 673 people are in hospital wi...

Sanofi offers 100 mln doses of hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19 fight

The trial , expected to involve 510 patients, is estimated to be completed on July 2021. Researchers in the United States have begun a clinical trial to te...

PCB to conduct virtual fitness tests amid lockdown

Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has launched passionate defence of tainted cricketers who have served their time, and taken a dig at Mohammad Hafeez for que...

Indian-origin Miss England returns to NHS as junior doctor

Today, I will be talking about Bhasha Mukherjee, Miss England, 2019. So on April 1, Mukherjee, 24, packed up her crown and gowns and flew home to Britain, whe...

Doctors Have Died Of COVID-19 In Italy - Medics

There are more than 1.45 million confirmed cases worldwide, with over 83,600 deaths, and above 308,700 recoveries, according to the US -based Johns Hopkins Univ...

Prime minister Boris Johnson moved out of intensive care

The British prime minister's office announced Thursday that medical workers have moved him back to the regular ward at St. Thomas' Hospital in central London ,...

' Too early' to lift United Kingdom coronavirus lockdown, says government

Mr Johnson, 55, was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital on Sunday evening with a persistent high temperature and cough. By Wednesday he was said to have been we...

U.S. starts trial of malaria drug for treating virus

That effort is a part of a global National Institutes of Health study to see if it can fight the coronavirus. Hydroxychloroquine also carries risks, experts...

New Study Finds That Cats Can Catch Coronavirus

It is the reason why nearly 30 pharmaceutical companies are on the race of developing a vaccine that will kill the virus and treat the patients. The study , ...

88 new COVID-19 cases, 8 deaths reported in Mississippi

Anyone who has COVID-19 symptoms such as dry cough, fever or difficulty breathing should isolate themselves from others and contact their healthcare provider or...

Texas woman, 18, arrested after threatening to spread coronavirus, police say

The Carrollton Police Department identified Lorraine Maradiaga as the girl in the video and issued a search for her arrest. Maradiaga arranged with police t...

‘Nasty, Third Rate’: Donald Trump's Coronavirus Briefing Room Antics Entertain - And Appal

The Journal's editorial board argued that the news briefings, which have frequently shifted into taunts of governors and spats with reporters who Trump claims a...

CDC loosens guidelines for some exposed to virus

The changes to the CDC guidelines are expected to be announced on Wednesday, according to Vice President Mike Pence. The person described the proposal on the ...

County logs first coronavirus-related death

She noted that 83% of the people who have died from the virus in L.A. County had underlying health conditions, and 76% of those who died were older than 65. Fer...

Province urges travellers to stay home; 34 new cases, two deaths announced

A total of 132 people are hospitalized with the novel coronavirus in B.C., and of those patients, 68 are in critical care. Darcy said people experiencing anxi...

How to make, put on and clean your cloth face mask

Most important to slowing the spread of the virus is maintaining a six-foot social distance between between yourself and others from outside your household at a...

Canada could see between 11000 and 300000 COVID-19 deaths

The number of Canadians infected with the flu-like virus passed the 20,000 level on Thursday, with more than 500 people deaths. It released its national pro...

COVID-19: Minister issues nursing home precautions

Barbara Ferrer said. The nursing homes taking in Magnolia's residents will undergo standard containment measures, including closing the facilities to new pati...

Another 6.6 million jobless claims filed last week amid coronavirus crisis

The previous week, more than 104,000 new claims were filed. Those who have only recently become unemployed will have their claims processed and receive their to...

COVID-19: Walgreens expanding drive-thru testing to Tennessee

The 15 locations are still being finalized, as Walgreens is now working with the U.S. Department of Health the Human Services. The site will use the new COV...

United Kingdom will have Europe's worst coronavirus death toll, study predicts

The UK could be the European country worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, suffering a death toll over 66,000 by August, according to a study by the Insti...

Fact Finders: Can my pet get the coronavirus disease?

There have been a handful of reports outside the USA of pet dogs or cats becoming infected after close contact with contagious people, including a Hong Kong dog...