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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Nurses at a public hospital hit by Mexico’s worst coronavirus outbreak were told by their managers not to wear protective masks at the start of the epidemic to avoid sowing panic among patients, nurses and other medical workers said.
Trump halts US funding to World Health Organization-CNN
“Other nations and regions who followed WHO guidelines and kept their borders open to China, accelerated the pandemic around the world,” Trump said.
A group of 22 doctors, virologists and researchers criticised the Public Health Agency in an op-ed published by Dagens Nyheter newspaper on Tuesday.
They accused it of having failed to draw up a proper strategy, pointing out that the mortality rate in Sweden was now way above that of its Nordic neighbours.
“So in Sweden more than 10 times as many people are dying than in our neighbouring country Finland,” they wrote while stressing a number of more aggressive measures taken in Finland.
“We’ll reopen the café once it’s all over. And the whole family will work here again.
“Even the government – they’ve really done everything possible and are doing a good job. Prime Minister Conte and all the others.
“Step by step we’ll start anew.”
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines introduced a more aggressive testing programme for the coronavirus on Tuesday to locate what it said could be as many as 15,000 unknown infections, despite having implemented some of Asia’s strictest and earliest lockdown measures.
SHANGHAI – China reported 89 new coronavirus cases on April 13, down from 108 the previous day, the health authority said on Tuesday.Of the total, 86 were imported, down from 98 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said.China’s state broadcaster had reported earlier that 79 of the day’s imported cases were in the northeast province of Heilongjiang, which shares a border with Russia.
China’s National Medical Products Administration has given approval to Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, under state-owned China National Pharmaceutical, and Sinovac Research & Development in Beijing, to conduct a trial combining the first two phases, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
National lockdowns have heightened the danger for women forced to stay at home with their abusers, cut off from the respite of work and less able to call for help undetected. Children, mostly home from school, are now even more exposed to trauma.
Nearly half of the known coronavirus deaths in Canada are linked to outbreaks in elderly care facilities, public health officials say.
The disclosure comes as care homes across the country have come under scrutiny.
Over the weekend, a care home in the province of Quebec, where 31 people have died, was placed under investigation.
The new coronavirus can survive long exposure to high temperatures, according to an experiment by a team of French scientists.
Professor Remi Charrel and colleagues at the Aix-Marseille University in southern France heated the virus that causes Covid-19 to 60 degrees Celsius (140 Fahrenheit) for an hour and found that some strains were still able to replicate.
The scientists had to bring the temperature to almost boiling point to kill the virus completely, according to their non-peer-reviewed paper released on bioRxiv.org on Saturday. The results have implications for the safety of lab technicians working with the virus.
Traditional mobile vendors are making a comeback in Thailand as businesses have been forced to close and people are being encouraged to stay home to curb the COVID-19 outbreak.
- President earlier tweeted that decision on when to lift pandemic restrictions was up to him, not governors
- Move highlights tensions between Trump and state authorities over handling of outbreak in US, which has most infections in the world
The Prime Minister has told SBS News that racist attacks on Asian migrants in Australia are ‘just so wrong’ and that the community have been leaders in the response to the coronavirus.
6 am EST. JHU shows a lower number of cases this morning from last night but an increase in deaths of 230 deaths. Death rate 6.22%
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Authorities in Moscow have warned that the Russian capital may run out of hospital beds to treat a rising influx of coronavirus patients in the next two to three weeks despite frantic efforts to get more beds in place.
Moscow, Russia’s worst-hit region, has rushed to reconfigure hospitals to treat patients of the new virus and made thousands of new beds available.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s death toll from the coronavirus could run some 15% higher than official figures have indicated so far, according to broader data published on Tuesday that include deaths in the community such as in nursing homes.
“Positive trends” emerging in Germany, head of country’s agency for disease control and prevention says
Germany is showing some positive trends in its bid to stop Covid-19 from continuing to spread, the head of the Robert Koch Institute — the country’s national agency for disease control and prevention — said at a news conference Tuesday.
US-based crisis mental-health hotline sees 891% spike in calls
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- Big Pharma firms have the funds but lack the motivation; public bodies have the motivation but lack the cash
Singapore, Japan cases jump, India extends largest lockdown
BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore has reported its biggest daily jump in new coronavirus infections, most of them linked to foreign workers living in crowded dormitories.
Foreigners account for over a third of Singapore’s workforce, many of them people from poorer Asian countries working in construction, shipping and maintenance jobs that support Singapore’s trade-reliant economy.
The latest surprising lead for researchers is an antiparasitic drug called ivermectin, sometimes used to treat head lice.
Research into the drug’s viability in treating COVID-19 is still in its early stages – far too soon to call it a breakthrough. But with the emergence of two preliminary studies yielding promising results, experts are expressing cautious optimism.
Ivermectin: Why it is Good to Wait
- US president retweeted criticism of top medical adviser on Sunday, fuelling chatter that he planned to oust the expert
- Fauci has come under fire by Republicans over his consistent push for strict social distancing and shutting down of economic activity
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