Sun 02 August 2020: The coronavirus pandemic continued to claim lives in Kuwait, Lebanon and Algeria on Saturday. Kuwait The Kuwaiti Health Ministry said six more deaths and 770 new infections were recorded over the past 24 hours. As many as 491 recoveries were also reported in a day. The total number of cases in […]
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Sun 02 August 2020: With 11,107 more cases, South Africa now home to 5th-most infections worldwide South Africa on Sunday topped 500,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, said the Health Ministry said. With 11,107 infections over the last 24 hours, the country’s virus tally has reached 503,209, landing the country in the fifth spot in […]
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Sun 02 August 2020: More than 100 possible vaccines are being developed around the world to try and tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) data, at least four vaccines are in the final phase three human trials, including three developed in China and another in the UK. University of Oxford vaccine […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: Vaccination to be free of charge, doctors and teachers would be first to be vaccinated, says health minister MOSCOW (AA) – Russia is preparing to start a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus from October, the country’s health minister said on Saturday. The vaccination will be free of charge, and […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: A study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago discovered that children younger than 5 years with mild to moderate COVID-19 have much higher levels of genetic material for the virus in the nose compared to older children and adults. Findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics, point to the possibility […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: Trudeau says ‘innovative’ app can help prevent future outbreaks TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada launched a smartphone app Friday that will alert people when they come near someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the app, called COVID Alert, as an “innovative” move that marks a […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: WHO chief calls for systematic serologic testing, which reveals what proportion of population could be immune GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization noted Friday that the world must learn to live with the coronavirus and fight it with the tools it has, despite efforts to develop a vaccine going on […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: Country’s Health Minister says only 1 in 3 among all positive cases under medical supervision as active cases continue fall NEW DELHI (AA) – India on Saturday recorded over 57,000 more cases of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, raising the overall infection tally to nearly 1.7 million. According to the Health Ministry, the total number of COVID-19 […]
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Fri 31 July 2020: The global coronavirus outbreak is the sort of disaster whose effects will last far into the future, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “The pandemic is a once-in-a-century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come,” Tedros told a meeting of the WHO’s […]
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Fri 31 July 2020: The first of thousands of South African-designed ventilators rolled off a Cape Town assembly line on Friday. South Africa has completed the first batch of ventilators which would be used to fight the COVID- 19, said the country’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel during a COVID-19 conference on […]
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