Ontario government has revealed projection numbers for the province to be just under 1,600 COVID-19 deaths and 80,000 cases by the end of April, if the current measures in place are upheld.President and CEO of Ontario Health Matthew Anderson alongside President and CEO of Public Health Ontario Dr. Peter Donnelly and Dean of the Dalla…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tiffany Pinckney remembers the fear when COVID-19 stole her breath. So when she recovered, the New York City mother became one of the country’s first survivors to donate her blood to help treat other seriously ill patients.“It is definitely overwhelming to know that in my blood, there may be answers,” Pinckney…
Read More »Coronavirus Australia live updates: CSIRO begins testing potential COVID-19 vaccines
Australia’s national science agency has begun testing potential coronavirus vaccines in what has been described as a critical milestone in the global fight against COVID-19.CSIRO scientists are performing the first stage of testing for two vaccine candidates at the agency’s high-containment biosecurity facility in Geelong.The pre-clinical trials, which are expected to take three months, will…
Read More »LIVE Coronavirus: Ireland’s Covid-19 death toll rises to 85
Latest figures from Wednesday show 14 further deaths and 212 new cases In a statement released to The Irish Times on Tuesday evening, the HSE said testing centres had performed ‘in excess of 2,000 tests across the country’ on Tuesday. Photograph: RollingNews.ie
Read More »Coronavirus live updates Australia: death toll rises to 20 as Queensland launches ‘care army’ – latest news
The first plane of critical medical supplies from the world’s largest producer, China, is to depart from Shanghai today (Australian Western Standard Time). Minderoo Foundation has arranged the charter of the Airbus A330, operated by China Eastern, that will touch down in Perth after a 10-hour flight. Aiming to resolve Australia’s extreme shortage of PPE…
Read More »Coronavirus: 79-year-old man is Gauteng’s first Covid-19 death
Gauteng has recorded its first coronavirus casualty.The province revealed that a 79-year-old male patient, who had tested positive for Covid-19, died on Monday.The deceased was earlier admitted to a private hospital in Mogale City, west of Johannesburg, on Saturday.The man is the first Covid-19 casualty in the province, while the number of deaths in the…
Read More »Australia coronavirus live news: government strikes deal with private hospitals on Covid-19 response – latest update
6.17am BST 06:17 10% of Australia’s cases are from Ruby Princess My colleague Naaman Zhou has this story tracking the number of coronavirus cases from the Ruby Princess cruise ship. You should read the story, but this paragraph is damning: There are now more cases of Covid-19 from the Ruby Princess outside NSW than within…
Read More »Coronavirus In Europe: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko Says Vodka Kills COVID-19
world Coronavirus “It’s better to die standing on your feet than to live on your knees,” said Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, before a hockey game last week. Posted on March 30, 2020, at 12:36 p.m. ET Sergei Gapon / Getty Images Soccer fans in Belarus The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you…
Read More »Coronavirus ‘patient zero’ in New York is out of hospital, Gov. Cuomo says
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A man dubbed as coronavirus “patient zero” in Westchester, N.Y., is home after a weekslong battle against COVID-19.Earlier this month, New York City lawyer Lawrence Garbuz, 50, was revealed to be linked to a number of cases in New Rochelle.…
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