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COVID-19: 28 employees test positive at Vancouver chicken processing plant

Bonnie Henry said the additional death was a senior from the Vancouver Coastal Health region, as well as 25 more cases. According to the new COVID-19 data mod...

US Senate may pass $500bn small business aid package today

There's still a few more Is to dot and Ts to cross, but we have a deal. The Senate, which is in recess during the crisis, approved the package without a forma...

Schumer Says Deal Struck on Emergency Aid Plan With White House

Most of the funding, $331 billion, would go to boost a small-business payroll loan program that ran out of money last week . There would also be an additional ...

Haryana seeks ICMR nod to start plasma therapy

Scientists in China, who conducted the preliminary study, said no serious adverse reactions were observed after convalescent plasma transfusion . The patient...

President Trump gives Tuesday coronavirus briefing after meeting with Gov. Cuomo

In highlighting the problem, Cuomo showed a slide that included pictures of machines made by Roche Holding AG and Hologic Inc and said he wanted the federal gov...

High Prairie continuing care resident dies from COVID-19

More details to come... "This didn't happen because we collectively formed a barrier by our actions to prevent the full force of this wave from striking us". "T...

Skin of two Chinese doctors who recovered from COVID-19 turns dark

The heatmap of symptoms in the US shows "hotspots". So far, the project has collected almost one million responses each week on Facebook and 600,000 through G...

CDC director warns winter wave of coronavirus could be more deadly

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday a second wave of coronavirus next winter could be "even more difficult". "And when I...

Plasma therapy used to treat Delhi COVID19 patient

The family came forward to arrange a donor for extracting plasma. Plasma is a constituent of the blood that appears hay-colored when separated. Reports ...

COVID-19 Deepika Padukone to discuss mental health with WHO chief

While Deepika and hubby Ranveer Singh have donated funds to the PM Cares Fund to help those in need amid the lockdown, they have also been actively creating awa...

COVID-19: UK to begin trial of Coronavirus vaccine from Thursday

Mr Hancock pledged a further STG22.5 million ($A43.9 million) to Imperial, while Oxford will be granted STG20 million to fund its clinical trials. Mr Hancock ...

Pa. Gov. Wolf Targets May 8 for Easing Some Coronavirus Restrictions

The curbside sales at the state-run liquor stores will serve as a guide to determine whether other non-life-sustaining businesses may be able to resume limited ...

FDA Authorizes First at-Home Coronavirus Test

The diagnostic test, produced by clinical laboratory conglomerate LabCorp , allows individuals to collect test samples while avoiding physical contact with phy...

Trump's decision to suspend immigration could hurt Indian techies

The President announced his intention to sign an executive order to "temporarily suspend immigration into the United States " on Twitter at 10:06 p.m. "The...

World Health Organization says now not possible to determine precise source of coronavirus

Early results from sero-epidemiologic surveys from around the world - which monitor levels of immunity within a population - suggest that a relatively small per...

Seventh resident of McLennan care home dies from COVID-19

In all, Alberta has recorded 2,803 cases of people contracting the virus, with 1,198 of those having recovered. This means that in just one week, confirmed ca...

Wuhan maximum security lab chief denies it is source of coronavirus

But the existence of the facility has fuelled conspiracy theories that the germ spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology , specifically its P4 laboratory wh...

WHO Warns Lifting of Coronavirus Lockdowns Must be Gradual

Meanwhile, Executive Director of WHO's Health Emergencies Program Michael Ryan stressed the importance of cooperation between Morocco and WHO, recalling that ...

`Worst` of the coronavirus is still to come, says World Health Organization chief

Since January, there have been some 15 staff from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) seconded to the United Nations agency and working at the United Nat...

53 mediapersons test positive for COVID-19 in Mumbai

Washington's Department of Health followed suit with the recall order. The recall was sparked after officials found that the viral transport media (VTM), or t...

Chinese scientists warned of the risky mutation of the coronavirus

The most deadly strains were genetically similar to the ones that spread in Europe and in NY, reported the South China Morning Post . The deadliest strains h...

Northern Sask. COVID-19 cases linked to Alberta travel: SHA

Henry said health officials want to avoid another spike in community spread. "COVID-19 is a virus that can move extremely quickly and cause a serious decline ...

United Kingdom coronavirus deaths rise by 449 to 16,509

Britain last week had extended the lockdown by three weeks as the virus continued to take a toll with health services stretched to the limit. There were an es...

York County sees 4 new coronavirus cases, health officials say

The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Wednesday that more than 3,600 people in the state had contracted COVID-19 and there have been ...

Coronavirus antibody tests see reliability and availability problems

AMITA Health and its partner, Alverno Laboratories in Hammond, Indiana, plan to offer antibody tests for COVID-19 to AMITA Health patients and members of the co...

New Hartford Rite Aid Offering COVID-19 Tests For Eligible Public

MI has the fifth most confirmed cases in the country and trails only NY and New Jersey in total deaths. Rite-Aid stores in Bergen and Rockland counties opened...

Facebook Releases Map of People Reporting Virus Symptoms

Facebook uses aggregated public data from a survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon University Delphi Research Center. Still, does Facebook have any credibility w...

Coronavirus: Care home death statistics 'long overdue'

If we look at some of the death rates since 1 April and compare them with previous years' rates, we estimate a figure of about 7,500 people may have died as a r...

United Kingdom asking COVID-19 survivors to donate blood

The patient is now doing well and his two consecutive COVID-19 tests have come negative, confirmed a doctor. The trials for COVID-19 treatment using plasma th...

Japan scientist 'very pessimistic' Olympics will happen next year

Kobe University professor Kentaro Iwata says the Olympics could only be held if Japan can control the COVID-19 infection and if all other countries control ...