Newfoundland and Labrador marks fifth straight day with zero new cases.Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says the province intends to proceed with a 28-day monitoring period between alert levels. (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador) For a fifth straight day Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting no new cases of COVID-19. The province’s case…
Kerala’s steps on the virus are easy to follow, but its success rate is difficult to repeat With containment strategies in place even before the first case of novel coronavirus was detected on January 30, Kerala appears to have finally hammered the curve flat. On May 1, for the first time, the State reported zero…
Updated / Tuesday, 5 May 2020 07:51 The golden statues of the Trocadero esplanade, in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris The first patient with Covid-19 in France appeared at the end of December, a month before the first case was confirmed, according to an intensive care chief. The novel coronavirus first appeared in…
The economic effects of COVID-19 could delay Africa’s next big IPO — that of Nigerian fintech unicorn Interswitch. If so, it wouldn’t be the first time the Lagos-based payments company’s plans for going public were postponed; the tech world has been anticipating Interswitch’s stock market debut since 2016. For the continent’s innovation ecosystem, there’s a…
The number of Covid-19 cases has risen by 447 to a total of 6 783. This is the first time the numbers have increased by more than 400 cases in a day.Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize announced the increase on Sunday night, adding that eight more people had died. Of these, two died in the Western…
Six more people have died of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, all at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax.Nova Scotia is reporting that a total of 37 people have died from the virus. (Robert Guertin/CBC)Six more people have died of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, all at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax. So far, 37 people…
MONTREAL — Quebec public health officials announced Sunday that a computer error resulted in 1,317 missing positive COVID-19 cases between April 2-30. The province also announced a daily increase of 892 new COVID-19 from Saturday, bringing the total number of infections in Quebec to 31,865. Sixty-nine people have died of the virus in the last…
MONTREAL — Public health officials announced Saturday that there are 1,008 new cases of COVID-19 in Quebec since Friday, and 114 more people have died in the province. The total number of deaths is now 2,136, and the total number of people infected is 29,656 up from 28,648 announced Friday. There are now 22 more…
WHILE HEALTH AUTHORITIES PREPARED HOSPITALS AND OTHER SECTORS FOR COVID-19, THE VIRUS WAS SILENTLY SPREADING THROUGH NURSING HOMES. HOW WAS IRELAND ‘CAUGHT OFF GUARD’? Sitting in her bedroom in St Mary’s Hospital nursing home in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Rose Hegarty was listening to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s March 12th speech announcing the closure of…
Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 28, 2020. Denis Balibouse/Reuters Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave a robust defence on Friday of his and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “timely” actions in declaring the new coronavirus an international health emergency at the end of…
