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[ad_1] Issued on: 04/28/2020 – 05:30Modified: 04/28/2020 – 05:30 France will reveal on Tuesday how it plans on May 11 to lift its six-week lockdown to fight the coronavirus, with the cafes closed but schools may controversially reopen. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will present the measures in a speech to …

[ad_1] The Western Cape is the epicenter of the outbreak with 1,737 cases followed by Gauteng with 1,353. FILE: Teams of field workers in the Ekurhuleni district, informal settlement of Glen Marikana to be part of the evaluation and testing campaign to combat the spread of COVID-19 on April 17, …

[ad_1] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made six additions to their official COVID-19 symptom list this week to help doctors and patients better understand who might be sick from the new coronavirus. Newly added symptoms include chills, repeated tremors with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and new …

[ad_1] An emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital who treated many coronavirus patients died Sunday of suicide, his father and police said. Dr. Lorna M. Breen, medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she was staying with her family, her father …

[ad_1] December 31 – China first reports to WHO a group of unusual pneumonia cases in Wuhan January 4 – WHO tweeted about ‘a cluster of pneumonia cases’ in Wuhan with no deaths, saying investigations into the cause are underway January 5 – The WHO issues its first guide on …

[ad_1] The chief of the emergency department of a Manhattan hospital committed suicide after spending days on the coronavirus battlefront, her family said Monday. “She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” Dr. Philip Breen told the New York Times about his medical daughter, Dr. Lorna Breen, who …

[ad_1] Researchers warned today that the life-threatening and rapidly sweeping coronavirus can remain in the air from crowded places. Experts in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the pandemic began, analyzed air samples from different parts of two hospitals. The results showed that the virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was undetectable everywhere except …

[ad_1] Australia and other countries in the southern hemisphere need support, so they have the ability to control both seasonal influenza and respiratory disease COVID-19, says an expert from the World Health Organization. The experience that these countries will have with both diseases circulating at the same time will greatly …

[ad_1] A nurse who beat coronavirus at a hospital in Teesside has shared her experience at Good Morning Britain. Millie Magadlela spent three days on a ventilator in the critical care unit at North Tees University Hospital in Stockton. The 59-year-old man, who works in the surgical decision unit at …

[ad_1] The government will not be able to reveal the results of its own Covid-19 test pledge of 100,000 a day until next week due to a delay in retrieving the results, according to No. 10. Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged on April 2 to reach the goal by the …