We’ve had three stabs at trying to pinpoint the likely economic fallout from Covid-19, and it’s not obvious we’re there yet. On March 26th, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) predicted the Irish economy would contract by 7.1 per cent in 2020 and that up to 350,000 jobs would be lost. On April 3rd,…
By Star staffwiresTue., April 21, 2020timer3 min. readThe latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available.7:03 a.m. An open conflict broke out Tuesday between Tokyo Olympic organizers and the IOC over who will pay for the unprecedented…
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health said Monday that four more people died from the novel coronavirus, bringing the provincial death toll to 59.Dr. Deena Hinshaw said two of the fatalities were people in long-term care facilities (Manoir Du Lac and CareWest Sarcee), one was a worker at the Cargill meat-processing plant and the fourth…
VANCOUVER — Another five people have died from COVID-19 in British Columbia, and health officials are dealing with a cluster of new infections linked to an oilsands work camp in Alberta. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced the latest fatalities at her daily virus briefing on Monday, along with 52 new test-positive cases, that…
By Rob FergusonQueen’s Park BureauRobert BenzieQueen’s Park Bureau ChiefMon., April 20, 2020timer3 min. readArmed with new data suggesting Ontario has hit its COVID-19 peak with fewer cases than feared, Premier Doug Ford is developing a “framework” for slowly reopening the economy.The province is on track to have fewer than 20,000 cases in this first wave…
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The first wave of coronavirus survivors are helping to fight COVID-19 by donating their antibody-rich plasma for clinical research trials in Canada and abroad. Susan Ormiston reports.Diana Berrent donates plasma on March 8, 2020, at New York clinic. Her blood shows high antibodies against coronavirus. She can go back every seven days to donate, and…
NEW DELHI: With a record 51 fatalities within 24 hours, the death toll due to coronavirus jumped to 324 and the number of cases in the country climbed to 9,352 on Monday, an increase of 905 since Sunday evening, according to the Union health ministry. While the number of active Covid-19 cases stood at 8,048,…
COVID-19 may delay plans to eliminate tuberculosis in Inuit homelands by 2030.Natan Obed, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, wants to make sure efforts to eliminate tuberculosis in Inuit homelands by 2030 aren’t delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Adam Scotti, PMO)Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Canada’s Inuit were already grappling with a much deadlier…
As COVID-19 continues its deadly spread across the country, health-care workers on the front lines of the pandemic are having to adapt their behaviour in a variety of ways, both in hospital and at home.This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news emailed to subscribers…
