Tag: health

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 06:37 UTC

  Chile ordered new quarantine measures for three districts of Santiago

  

  Chile ordered strict new quarantine measures on three districts in the capital Santiago after a sudden spike in coronavirus cases on Sunday. The health ministry reported a surge of 1,228 new infections, bringing the total to nearly 20,000 nationwide and dealing a blow to hopes it was over the worst of the crisis.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2020 - 07:56 UTC

  Falklands receives extra pharmaceutical and equipment supplies from UK

  

  With the arrival of extra supplies of pharmaceuticals and equipment on the UK/Falklands Airbridge last Friday evening, the hospital in Stanley, KEMH, has put into effect its well-developed plans for handling Covid 19 cases.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina and Chile reported their first confirmed cases of coronavirus patients

  

  Argentina and Chile both said on Tuesday they had confirmed their first case of the novel coronavirus in patients who recently returned from travels. A 43-year-old infected Argentine man had returned from Italy on March 1, while a 33-year-old Chilean man had spent a month in southeast Asia.

• Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:31 UTC

  Mercosur urgent health ministers meeting to address dengue, measles and coronavirus threat

  

  Mercosur health ministers will be holding an urgent meeting this week in Paraguay to address the spread of dengue, the outbreak of measles and the possible arrival of the China coronavirus to the region.

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:12 UTC

  WHO team of experts in Beijing; Coronavirus death toll is over 900 and over 40.000 confirmed infections

  

  In advance team of international experts led by the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for Beijing to help investigate China’s coronavirus epidemic, which authorities said on Monday had now claimed 908 lives on the mainland.

• Thursday, February 6th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Coronavirus deaths keep climbing; China increasingly isolated by air and sea

  

  The death toll from a new coronavirus in mainland China jumped by 73 to 563 on Thursday, its third consecutive record daily rise, as experts intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that has shut down Chinese cities and forced thousands more into quarantine around the world.

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  China has not yet accepted US offer for help to contain coronavirus epidemic

  

  China has been more transparent about the coronavirus than it has been in previous crises but Beijing has not yet accepted a US offer of help to contain the epidemic, White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien said on Sunday.

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  G7 members will jointly address the coronavirus epidemic

  

  G 7 countries will discuss a joint response to the coronavirus epidemic, Germany's health minister said on Sunday. Jens Spahn said he had talked on the phone with his US counterpart and “we agreed that there should be a conference call, a discussion by G7 health ministers about this question with the aim of dealing with it together”.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Beijing furious with US over warning American citizens to avoid China

  

  Beijing on Friday sharply criticized the United States for warning American citizens to avoid China and for urging those already there to leave due to the coronavirus health emergency.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Facebook to down misinformation about China's fast spreading coronavirus

  

  Facebook said it will take down misinformation about China's fast-spreading coronavirus in a rare departure from its approach to health content, after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency.