Health

A spokesman for Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the federal health and defence departments were working with Emergency Management Australia "to expedite a request for assistance from Victoria" and that his government stood "ready to assist.""The Prime Minister has been in regular discussions with Premier Andrews and the Minister for Defence about the possible further…

Brazil's attorney general's office said Tuesday it was looking to "reverse" a federal judge's decision ordering President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a mask. The attorney general's office told CNN that i…

Barry and Heidi Volkwijn died on Saturday, hours apart.Amy, who is still in isolation, said she was still coming to terms with losing both her parents.A joint funeral will be held for the couple next week.A Cape Town teenager lost both her parents to Covid-19 on one day. But as she herself recovers from the…

As movie theaters reopen across the United States and the world, there are lingering questions about what kinds of measures those theaters will be taking to keep staff and moviegoers safe in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These concerns were illustrated last week, when AMC CEO Adam Aron said in an interview that…

MONTREAL -- There are now 5,424 people who have died of COVID-19 in Quebec, health authorities announced Tuesday, as confirmed cases in the province reached 54,884. That’s up seven from the 5,417 deaths reported Monday, when no new deaths were announced. Of the newly reported deaths, five took place over the past 24 hours, while…

Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on a tour of the Reverend Dr Elizabeth Mamisa Chabula-Nxiweni Field Hospital in Port Elizabeth. A field hospital built by car-maker VW came up in record time.Two nations unite "to save humanity" - South Africa and Germany in action together.Hospital opens just in time for "the raging storm" of the…

(CNN)A new study suggests that as many as 8.7 million Americans came down with coronavirus in March, but more than 80% of them were never diagnosed. A team of researchers looked at the number of peo…

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At least 24 public health officials across the United States have either resigned, retired or been fired from the positions during the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Association of City and County H…

A hacktivist group published hundreds of gigabytes of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the US on Friday in the form of a searchable database that can be sorted by officers' badge numbers.The leaked data stemmed from a security breach at a Houston-based web services company that maintains several law enforcement data centers, according…