In a Las Vegas parking lot, homeless people prepare to sleep within painted squares to ensure social distancing. Officials turned part of the lot into a makeshift camp after a man staying at a local shelter tested positive for COVID-19. John Locher/The Associated Press John Rapley is a political economist at the University of Cambridge…
Britain now has Europe’s second-highest official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic, according to new figures that cover fatalities in all settings, including in nursing homes. Public Health England has said that some 26,097 people died after testing positive for the virus. Earlier, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer had a…
Unit coordinator Samantha Hermez wears a surgical mask as she manages the phones in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at St. Paul’s hospital in downtown Vancouver, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press British Columbia counted its first COVID-19-related death in a First Nations community on Saturday, the province’s top doctor said as she…
More than 200 Cuban health professionals are expected to arrive in South Africa on Sunday to help the country in its fight against Covid-19, according to Cuban Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson.The 217 members of the “Medical Brigade” include family physicians, epidemiologists, biologists, healthcare technology experts, engineering experts, biotechnology experts and other specialists, the embassy said…
(CNN)Government records reveal how supply shortages, lapses in care, a lack of transparency and inadequate infection control precautions are fueling the spread of Covid-19 within America’s nursing homes. Troubled facilities and highly rated nursing homes al…
(Reuters) – The first person in Sadad Dakhare’s two-bedroom apartment in Oslo, Norway, to show symptoms was his 4-year-old niece. Next, his mother, his sister and he himself fell ill. Then, about a week after his niece became sick, Dakhare heard his 76-year-old father coughing heavily. Sadad Dakhare (R), his father Mohamed Dakhare Farah and…
Some prisoners awaiting tests for coronavirus are being kept in 24-hour lock-up with no access to showers as prison authorities try to prevent an outbreak of the disease in the system. There are no confirmed cases in Irish prisons but some inmates who have displayed symptoms have been moved to a central isolation unit in…
WASHINGTON ― Whether you live or die because of this pandemic could very well depend on how afraid your governor is of President Donald Trump.Across the country, how readily the coronavirus is spreading in your state roughly correlates with how early your governor issued a stay-at-home order – which in turn tracks how willing your governor…
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize was forced to take dramatic steps on Tuesday to bolster Nelson Mandela Bay’s fight against Covid-19, after it emerged in a damning report that the Eastern Cape government failed to provide adequate resources for the municipality to tackle the pandemic. Two of the metro’s leaders told News24 that Mkhize lambasted Health…
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government plans to test a sample of 20,000 English households for COVID-19 in the coming weeks to try to establish how far the disease has spread across the country. FILE PHOTO: A member of the military is seen testing a person in their car at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing facility…
