Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly. For a better experience use Google Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge. Confidential Health Service Executive figures obtained by The Irish Times show for the first time the precise impact of…
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Toronto and its surrounding cities account for a disproportionately high number of Ontario’s new cases of COVID-19, according to a CBC News analysis of provincial data on novel coronavirus infections.Nurses conduct COVID-19 testing at the William Osler Health System’s drive-thru assessment centre in Toronto. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)Toronto and its surrounding regions account for a disproportionately high…
False or misleading information in some of YouTube’s most popular COVID-19 videos has had more than 62 million views.Share on PinterestA recent study investigates the popularity of misleading COVID-19 videos on YouTube.There is some mysterious magic behind what makes information take root on the internet, and it apparently has nothing to do with accuracy. A…
As an expected spike in Covid-19 cases looms, South African laboratories are facing a critical shortage of test kits and reagents needed to conduct coronavirus testing. In the past two days, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) labs around the country managed to complete only 8 540 tests – compared to 13 896 tests done by…
Testing bonanza — Proponents of the impressive effort say it will provide peace of mind. Beth Mole – May 27, 2020 12:37 pm UTC Enlarge / WUHAN, May 15, 2020 – Residents take nucleic acid tests at a testing post set up at a primary school in Dongxihu District in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province,…
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A 30-YEAR-OLD man from central Queensland who died overnight tested positive to COVID-19.Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the death at a press conference this morning.‘I hate this dictatorship’: Hanson gives border deadlineBorder trade-off: What Premier’s willing to offerOpinion: Premier must stick to her guns on borderShe called it an “unfolding situation”, revealing the diagnosis only occurred…
A young father has died of COVID-19 in Central Queensland. The 30-year-old man, a miner, was found unresponsive in his Blackwater home when his partner returned from work about 4.30pm yesterday.“(She) called an ambulance and they declared him dead,” Queensland’s Chief Health officer Dr Jeannette Young said on Wednesday.He is the youngest person to have…
Parliament’s spending watchdog says the estimated deficit for the year has likely risen to about $260 billion, leaving the government with little fiscal firepower to stimulate an economic rebound. Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said the last time the PBO looked at basic income, it estimated the federal cost at between $76 billion and $86 billion…
