U.S. deaths near 10,000 as officials warn of hard week ahead
With the number of people killed by the coronavirus in the United States nearing 10,000 on Monday, the country’s top medical officials warned the worst was yet to come. The number of cases has ballooned to 337,752 — nearly three times higher than the second-worst...
WITH THE U.S. PREOCCUPIED AND POOR NATIONS BRACING FOR PANDEMIC
While Europe and North America battle to turn the tide of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the virus is also taking hold in the developing world where governments are far less able to fight back. No country can face the pandemic alone. Even the U.S. is...
The Note: Wisconsin primary offers warnings about November realities
Leave it to Wisconsin to deliver political lessons neither party is quite ready to learn. Barring last-minute legislative or judicial action, voters will cast ballots in person across Wisconsin on Tuesday. It’s a primary nobody — least of all medical professionals — really wants, but...
Artificial intelligence used to predict which coronavirus patients are at greater risk of ARDS
An artificial intelligence tool is being developed which researchers hope could be used to predict which coronavirus patients will suffer life-threatening lung damage. The team behind the initial study reported 80% accuracy in its predictions of which patients would develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)...
Coronavirus: Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for Covid-19
A four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus. The tiger, named Nadia, is believed to be the first known case of an animal infected by a human with Covid-19. The Bronx Zoo, in New York City, says the...
Coronavirus: The race to stop the virus spread in Asia’s ‘biggest slum’
On 23 March, a 56-year-old man living in a vast, labyrinthine slum in the western Indian city of Mumbai went to see a doctor. He was feeling feverish and had a bad cough. The garment trader lived in Dharavi where more than half-a-million people are...
Oil slides as Saudi Arabia-Russia talks delayed
Global oil prices have dropped after Saudi Arabia and Russia postponed a meeting about a deal to cut output as the virus pandemic hits demand. The two countries have been locked in an oil price war for the last month. Traders are concerned that, with...
Coronavirus: High street pharmacists ‘needlessly put at risk’
High street pharmacists are “needlessly being put at risk” of catching and spreading coronavirus due to a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), a professional body says. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says that its members have not got the right equipment – masks, gloves and...
Ethiopia announces its first coronavirus deaths
Ethiopia’s ministry of health on Sunday announced the country’s first deaths as a result of Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus. The two deaths were announced one hour apart by Health Minister Lia Tadesse. Dr Lia said the first victim, a 60-year-old woman, had...
Libya’s former prime minister dies from coronavirus
Libya’s former interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jebril has died from the coronavirus, according to his political party. The 67-year-old contracted the virus in Egypt in late March and died at a hospital in Cairo, according to his aide. He was in power as head of...
Uproar over Nigeria’s plan to invite Chinese doctors
Nigeria’s Medical Association has criticised a government plan to bring 18 Chinese doctors into the country to help fight the coronavirus. The association said it would be better to make use of the many unemployed or under-employed medical personnel already in the country. It also...
Coronavirus updates: US braces for ‘Pearl Harbor moment’ even as deaths dip in New York
The nation was bracing Sunday for it deadliest week in what the surgeon general called “our Pearl Harbor moment” as the trajectory of coronavirus cases continued its climb, but there were hints of improvement in the nation’s “hot spot” of New York. In Italy, Pope...
U.S. braces for ‘hardest, saddest’ week as coronavirus deaths surpass 9,300
New York, the hardest-hit state, reported on Sunday that there were nearly 600 new deaths for a total of 4,159 deaths and 122,000 total cases. Bodies of victims of COVID-19, the flu-like respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, were stacked in bright orange bags inside...
Trump administration tells states to step up as governors plead for aid
The federal government’s top public health spokesman invoked World War II as the U.S. heads into a new, deadlier phase of the coronavirus pandemic, warning in interviews Sunday that this is a “Pearl Harbor moment.” Surgeon General Jerome Adams also told states that are still...
Brett Crozier, tested positive for coronavirus before he was removed from command, according to a report.
Crozier began exhibiting symptoms before he was removed from the ship on Thursday, the New York Times reported on Sunday morning, citing two of Crozier’s close friends. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly fired Crozier on Thursday, after a memo he wrote urging Navy leaders to get...
US reports highest single-day coronavirus death toll since outbreak
The US on Saturday reported more than 1,300 coronavirus deaths — the largest daily spike in the country since the health crisis began, according to a report. The grim milestone brought the country’s death toll up to 8,503, with more than 312,000 Americans now confirmed...
China is encouraging herbal remedies to treat COVID-19. But scientists warn against it
As China appears to emerge from the worst of its coronavirus outbreak, government officials are encouraging the use of traditional medicine for treatment and prevention — a practice experts warned could give the public a false sense of security amid the pandemic. China’s National Health...
U.S. Virus Deaths Surpass 8,500 as Cruise Ship with COVID-19 Patients Docks in Florida
Coronavirus cases in the U.S. soared past 300,000 on Sunday, more than double the total of Spain, the country with the second-highest number of confirmed cases. As of Sunday morning, there were 312,245 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the...
Nearly 600 people in N.Y. die of coronavirus Saturday; ‘apex’ could be near
Nearly 600 additional people in New York state died of coronavirus Saturday, bringing the grim toll to 4,159 but suggesting it could be around the “apex” of the outbreak, Gov. Cuomo said. “We could be either very near the apex or the apex could be...
U.S. surgeon general: ‘The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment
The U.S. surgeon general said this week will be the “hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives” in a direct message to the nine governors who have yet to issue stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus outbreak. “The next week is going to be...
‘Low-risk’ economic activities to resume in Iran
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that “low-risk” economic activities would resume in the hard-hit country from 11 April. Mr Rouhani did not specify what type of activities would be affected. Schools, universities, as well as religious and social centres will remain closed and...
Coronavirus: Australia launches criminal investigation into Ruby Princess
A criminal investigation has been launched in Australia into how cruise ship passengers were allowed to disembark in Sydney despite some exhibiting flu-like symptoms. More than 600 people on board the Ruby Princess later tested positive for coronavirus and 10 have since died. The ship...
Coronavirus: Trump predicts ‘a lot of death’ as cases pass 300,000
US President Donald Trump has warned Americans to prepare for the “toughest week” of the coronavirus pandemic yet, predicting a surge in deaths. At his daily briefing, Mr Trump said “there will be death” in a grim assessment of the days ahead. He sought to...
Coronavirus: Where will be the last place to catch Covid-19?
On 12 January – less than three months ago – the coronavirus was confined to China. Not a single case had been found outside the country where it emerged. And then, on 13 January, the virus became a global problem. A case was recorded in...
Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday without public in St. Peter’s
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is celebrating Palm Sunday Mass without the public, since the traditional ceremony in St. Peter’s Square was scrapped because of the coronavirus pandemic. Normally, tens of thousands of Romans, tourists and pilgrims, clutching olive tree branches or palm fronds would...
New Orleans area’s coronavirus death rate is highest in US, data show
The New Orleans area in southeast Louisiana had the highest coronavirus death rate in the U.S. as of Friday. Many of the fatalities have been spurred on in part by patients’ underlying health issues, Gov. John Bel Edwards said. Deaths per capita in St. John...
China honors coronavirus victims with 3 minutes of reflection, ‘wail of grief’
China held a rare, three-minute nationwide moment of reflection Saturday to remember coronavirus victims, with cars, trains and ships blaring their horns in what state media described as a coordinated “wail of grief.” The commemorations come as Wuhan — the industrial city where the virus...
United slashes New York-area flights due to coronavirus
United said starting Sunday it will go from 157 daily flights total at Newark and New York LaGuardia to just 17. Newark, the airline’s hub in the New York area, will drop from 139 daily flights to 62 destinations to 15 flights a day to...
Inside the luxurious underground bunkers where the rich bug out
When the going gets tough, the rich get going … to luxurious underground bunkers. Suddenly, heading six feet under doesn’t sound so bad, especially when the new digs often include pre-stocked food and blast-proof doors. Helicopters are on standby “if that moment comes,” says one...
Coronavirus live updates: New Jersey city mandates all workers to use face covers
The death toll amid the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to skyrocket as more than 8,400 people in the United States have died from COVID-19. There are at more than 311,000 diagnosed cases in the U.S. and more than 1.2 million around the world. The actual...