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Gandhi Hospital medicos call off their protest

The T-JUDA Gandhi Hospital unit president Dr Lohit Reddy said that the third-year PG student Dr Venkannagari Vikas Reddy was attending a 55-year-old patient adm...

Lockdown week earlier 'could've halved death toll'

Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told lawmakers that when key decisions were being made in March, scientists underes...

NYS relaxes COVID testing expectations at nursing homes

They want to reduce testing to once a week. Industry officials complained the mandatory testing costs too much. With about 205,000 people working at nursing h...

Cabell County Fair to be modified this summer

It was canceled exactly 100 years ago because of the last pandemic, the Spanish Flu. Carnival rides will not be a part of the fair this year. The Indiana Co...

PM Johnson says lockdown led by scientific evidence after timing criticised

A leading scientist has claimed that introducing coronavirus lockdown measures a week earlier could have halved the current death toll. The UK death toll ...

Global lockdowns, other measures averted half-billion COVID-19 cases

Solomon Hsiang , lead study author and director of the Global Policy Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley, said, " Without these policies em...

WHO Clarifies Comment About Asymptomatic COVID-19 Spread Being ‘Very Rare’

At least 35 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 are asymptomatic and experts have pointed toward these cases as the most unsafe in creating the sp...

WHO Said Asymptomatic People Don't Spread COVID - And Then Took It Back

Her comments a day earlier - when she told reporters, " From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward t...

Coronavirus patients most infectious as they first feel unwell

But then it all got taken back. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove , head of WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit. But these studies were quite small, she sai...

McLean County Has None In Hospital Due To COVID-19

One additional person who tested positive for the coronavirus has recovered and has been released from isolation. Using ZIP code information, there was one mo...

United Kingdom records 64,000 excess deaths during pandemic - ONS

In March, Prof Ferguson predicted that the pandemic would cause at most 20,000 deaths in the UK. According to Reuters, epidemiologists say excess mortality is...

Symptomatic, Asymptomatic, Presymptomatic: Who Can Spread The Coronavirus?

Dr Van Kerkhove said while it is known that there are some asymptomatic patients who can transmit the virus, it needs to be better understood how many in the po...

World Health Organization backtracks on claim asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 is 'very rare'

The objective of wearing a homemade cloth mask is to reduce the transmission of the Covid-19 virus in community settings from individuals who may be asymptomat...

Coronavirus patients most infectious when they first feel unwell

She had said on Monday that many countries undertaking contact tracing had identified asymptomatic cases, but were not finding that they caused further ...

Sudbury-area tick tests positive for Lyme disease

Lyme disease is a tick transmitted disease that can affect people and animals. "Other symptoms of the disease can include fever, headache, and muscle and joint ...

Pennsylvania county traces at least 12 coronavirus cases to Jersey Shore partygoer

Bucks County's new cases involved 19 household contacts, including those from the New Jersey gatherings, three residents or workers at long-term care facilities...

Can people without symptoms spread coronavirus? Answering that question has gotten complicated

On top of that, Dr. Kerkhove said , "From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary in...

Fauci says coronavirus his 'worst nightmare' and far from over

Fauci added that there is still a world of uncertainty around the virus, and how it spreads and affects the body. "In a period - if you just think about it - in...

WHO Official Clarifies Claim That Asymptomatic Coronavirus Spread is ‘Very Rare’

Preliminary studies from Germany and the United States suggest that people with mild symptoms can be infectious for up to 8-9 days, and "it can be a lot longer ...

Erie County COVID-19 hospitalizations under 100 for first time since March

Douglas County had reported 74 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic as of Tuesday, local officials said, the same number as Monday. When look...

Coronavirus: WHO official says COVID-19 spread by asymptomatic patients is rare

Van Kerkhove said, "What we really want to be focused on is following the symptomatic cases". Van Kerkhove said that based on data from countries, when people...

After saying asymptomatic carriers spreading COVID-19 very rare, World Health Organization clarifies

Asymptomatic cases What are asymptomatic cases of COVID-19? WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, however, emphasised that masks on their own wil...

World Health Organization expert cites 'misunderstanding' after saying asymptomatic transmission 'very rare'

Ryan did add those infected are the most contagious when their symptoms are visibly bad. Pre-symptomatic individuals, who develop a higher viral load just...

In a first, COVID-19 recoveries in India surpass active cases

The total number of coronavirus cases in the country now stands at 2,66,598. It's fifth in the world for total confirmed COVID-19 cases. In the last 24 hours,...

Experts question WHO comment that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 ‘very rare’

She said countries should focus on following symptomatic cases. If asymptomatic spread is not a serious danger after all, then the case for asymptomatic people ...

Experts question World Health Organization comment on 'rare' asymptomatic COVID-19 spread

Calling the controversy "a misunderstanding ", van Kerkhove said that during the news conference Monday, she was trying to respond to a journalist's question...

Couple celebrates wedding with demonstrators at Philadelphia protest

Protesters passing through Logan Square cheered when they spotted the couple taking their "first look" photos in front of the hotel. Dr Perkins and Gordon are...

Stearns County Records 17th COVID-19 Related Death

The overall positivity rate was 4.34% in Kansas City, 3.61% in Jackson County, 2.3% in Clay County, 3.9% in Johnson County and 15.7% in Wyandotte County. In Joh...

WHO Backtracks On Asymptomatic COVID-19 Comments

But Van Kerkhove said the real focus should by on following symptomatic cases. About 40 to 45 percent of people with COVID-19 may be asymptomatic , accordi...

158 new cases; 5 new deaths

One in Nowata County, a male in the 18-35 age group. The 10th case of COVID-19 has been reported in Pacific County. That list can be found here. Individual ...