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Home / India News / Coronavirus Update: Maharashtra breaches 2,000 mark with 82 new Covid-19 cases Maharashtra on Monday recorded 2064 cases of Covid-19 with 82 new infections, including 59 in Mumbai, the state’s health department said, even as the government will hold meetings to discuss ways to implement its plan for the second phase…

Federal health regulators are expected to push the nursing-home industry to inform residents, their families and staff quickly when facilities confirm Covid-19 cases, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could announce the move as early as this week, the people said. It isn’t clear...

PhotographyBy Kenneth Dickerman | Apr. 12, 2020By now, the spread of covid-19 has affected just about everyone around the globe. From Rome to Barcelona to New York and beyond we have been cautioned to practice social distancing to help contain the virus outbreak. This has affected everything we do, from work to school and now,…

Updated April 13, 2020 06:12:38 There are fears the coronavirus death toll in the United Kingdom could surpass those in Spain and Italy as the number of UK deaths passes 10,000.This story will be updated regularly throughout Monday. You can also stay informed with the latest episode of the Coronacast podcast.Monday's key stories:Almost 200 Australians…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, perhaps the world’s best-known coronavirus patient, was released from a London hospital Sunday, nearly a week after he was admitted to the intensive care unit with complications from the coronavirus.“I have today left hospital after a week in which the NHS [National Health Service] has saved my life,” Johnson, 55,…

Updated / Sunday, 12 Apr 2020 20:59 Leinster House - parties say framework will focus on economic recovery pic: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie Rebuilding the economy in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis will be the main focus of a framework for government document which is expected to be signed off by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael negotiating…

And there is also the “doctors group,” a previously unreported offshoot of the original task force that huddles daily to discuss medical and public health issues, created in part to push back against demands that the health experts view as too reckless.In theory, the task forces are all working toward the same goal: defeating the…

Home / India News / 3 Mumbai journalists test positive for Covid-19, put in isolation Three journalists in Mumbai who tested positive for Covid-19 were moved to the civic isolation facility for asymptomatic Covid-19 positive persons at Powai after they reported their test results to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Friday night, officials said Sunday. The…

COVID-19 may delay plans to eliminate tuberculosis in Inuit homelands by 2030.Natan Obed, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, wants to make sure efforts to eliminate tuberculosis in Inuit homelands by 2030 aren't delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Adam Scotti, PMO)Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Canada's Inuit were already grappling with a much deadlier…

Health Canada says a rapid blood test for COVID-19 that’s being manufactured in Canada and shipped to the United States is not ready for use here.A scientist presents an antibody test for coronavirus in a laboratory in Jena, Germany. BTNX Inc., a Canadian company that makes the same kind of rapid-response blood test to detect…