Covid-19

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10.24am BST 10:24 Rebecca Smithers Tesco has started construction work on a dedicated pop-up store for staff working at the NHS Nightingale ExCel in London, which it hopes to open on Sunday. The 24-hour shop is being adapted from an existing retail unit next to ExCel with a marquee at the front to increase the…

Thousands of South Africans are trapped abroad, unable to return home due to the strict lockdown regulations in place to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.They are running out of funds and options as each day passes.Many feel abandoned by the South African government and are desperate for help. But, in far-flung countries with…

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they were probably facing a pandemic from the new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people and millions began their annual trip home for the Lunar New Year celebrations. President Xi Jinping warned the public on January…

A woman in her 30s has been arrested and charged after she allegedly spat at a garda in north Dublin and said she was awaiting test results for the coronavirus. The incident occurred at 6.20pm on Tuesday at St Attracta Road in Cabra. Gardaí said the woman approached a marked Garda car and began banging…

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge for healthcare workers. Among the major challenges are social distancing issues, which have required novel approaches to diagnosing and treating illness. For many who have already tested positive, home stays are the best option to avoid an already massively overtaxed hospital system in many areas and to…

COVID-19's stealth impact on children As fears of the coronavirus continue to spread in the United States, some people have turned to unorthodox, unproven and even dangerous methods to attempt to ward off the disease. Now, rumors are spreading that breast milk could contain COVID-19 antibodies, but doctors say there's no evidence to support that claim.…

As the COVID-19 death toll in the United States continues to climb, American stocks are, in a grim divergence, recovering lost ground. It isn’t clear precisely why locally-listed equities have risen in recent weeks, let alone today, but let’s go over the day’s results so that we’re all on the same page. In regular trading…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.  Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel was given a COVID-19 rapid test live on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Monday by Dr. Michael Misialek, associate chair of pathology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital outside Boston."This is a rapid diagnostic test that will…

Updated / Tuesday, 14 Apr 2020 10:01 Gardaí say the drugs are worth over €7,800 Two men are in custody after heroin worth over €7,800 was found in a car at a Covid-19 checkpoint last night. The incident happened at around 7.40pm when an off-duty member of the Waterford Garda Divisional Drugs Unit saw a…