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Britain passes milestone of 20,000 Covid-19 hospital deaths

Britain now is the fifth country with an official number of coronavirus-related deaths exceeding 20,000, after the United States, Italy, Spain and France. "We'v...

Almost All Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Had Another Illness

Doctors in the U.S. are warning of another risk associated with COVID-19: the possibility that the virus can cause sudden strokes in patients under the age of 5...

NY firefighter loses 5-month-old daughter to COVID-19

Jay-Natalie was tested twice for COVID-19 - once when she was first hospitalized and again six days later - before doctors confirmed she had the disease caused ...

Coronavirus: First patients injected in United Kingdom vaccine trial

Volunteers will be given one of two vaccines, but only doctors will know which has been administered. According to a MarketWatch report, the United Kingdom ...

Destructive 2nd wave seen in the US

Redfield said the virus arrived in the U.S. just as regular flu season - which itself can strain healthcare systems - was waning. The president said Dr. "...

Ontario extends emergency orders until May

Ontario Public Health gathers its statistics from a public health database, and the website states their data may lag behind that of the ministry of long-term c...

Ontario reaches nearly 14000 cases of COVID-19

Protesters demand the removal of provincial coronavirus disease restrictions outside the Ontario legislature in Toronto, April 25, 2020. The number of recover...

Province extends emergency order until May 6

And earlier this month, the Progressive Conservative government came under fire after a CBC News investigation found it had largely stopped doing unannounced ...

Health minister announces changes to enhance rural health

This resulted in some rural doctors pulling back on hospital work in order to see patients at their clinics where overhead costs could still be billed for, with...

Coronavirus May Cause Sudden Strokes In Young Adults

Researchers found that 20 percent of all those hospitalized died - a finding that's similar to the percentage who perish in normal times among those who are a...

'No evidence' antibodies protect recovered coronavirus patients, World Health Organization says

PSN President, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, said Plasmodium falciparum is the most prevalent malaria parasite in Nigeria, accounting for 99.7 per cent of estimated mal...

World Health Organization says ‘dangerous’ Covid-19 will be around ‘for a long time’

He also said "this virus will be with us for a long time", but noted progress in Western Europe, one of the worst-affected areas. The US mission in Geneva c...

Coronavirus: First US deaths took place weeks earlier than thought

For more stories go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za . Santa Clara County in the US state of California confirmed that two patients had died with the novel co...

Two Californians died in February from coronavirus

The US is now the nation worst-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with New York State being the top hotspot. The infections in the two patients were confirmed by...

Nursing homes must now report all coronavirus cases

Of those cases 1,118 are reported as recovered - an increase of 23 on yesterday. According to court documents, filed by the ONA in mid-April, four Ontario lon...

Apple, Google update coronavirus contact tracing tech ahead of launch

In addition, people who test positive are not identified by the system to other users, or to Apple or Google . The first version of that tech will be avai...

Trump signs executive order restricting immigration: Here's what's in it

Mr. Trump had tweeted earlier this week that he would "temporarily suspend immigration". "In order to protect our great American workers, I've just signed ...

Most COVID-19 patients put on ventilators in NY died

They are also the ones with the highest chances of dying from respiratory failure. Some doctors told Business Insider that blood-thinning drugs might work aga...

Internet memes react to President Trump's COVID-19 disinfectant claim

Later in the day at a signing ceremony for a congressional bill to again fund the Paycheck Protection Program , Trump said his question the previous day on inj...

Million New Yorkers May Have Been Infected with Coronavirus

World's Catherine Kobayashi reports. That implies that about 2.7 million residents may have had Covid-19, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. Many more people will ...

Coronavirus: Dettol and Lysol maker warns against injections after Trump comments

The social media site exploded with discussion of the president's comments, made at his daily media briefing on Thursday, with such trending terms as "Lysol", '...

Ontario COVID-19 Recovery Plan Coming Next Week

Ford says "Early next week we will be releasing our framework for reopening Ontario's economy". "Saskatchewan has a much, much smaller population and large ar...

Coronavirus: Model projects when states could safely reopen businesses

Pennsylvania also appeared to be on track to begin the process June 1 - while DE was slated for May 18 and Rhode Island has been projected for June 8, according...

Half of Europe's coronavirus deaths were residents in aged care homes

The WHO Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, called the situation "deeply concerning". There is an urgent need to rethink on how care homes operate. Desp...

Coquitlam poultry plant closed after COVID-19 outbreak detected

Bonnie Henry. There has been 1,795 COVID-19 cases in B.C., while 1,079 people have fully recovered. Owned by the same company, the factory is a sister plant...

FDNY firefighter loses 5-month-old daughter to coronavirus

Jose Prosper, the president of the Hispanic Society of FDNY, announced her death . Her objective was served and she was called home on 4/20/2020. The post sh...

UW Health, Froedtert partner with national COVID-19 plasma project

Francois tested positive for COVID-19 in early March and is now in the process of attempting to donate plasma to be used for clinical trials with active patie...

Andy Cohen Couldn't Donate Plasma Due to "Discriminatory" FDA Rules

Andy Cohen has experienced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s "antiquated and discriminatory" blood donation guidelines firsthand. But that doesn't see...

COVID-19 will be around a long time: World Health Organization chief

Amid criticism that it should have acted earlier, Tedros defended the WHO's decision to declare an worldwide emergency only on January 30, saying, "Looking back...

U.S. confirms first COVID-19 fatality earlier than previous report

The truth is -the Times reports- that the first death in California, on February 6, was only 73 days ago and in little more than two months, the U.S. economy wo...