Tag: virus

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 07:15 UTC

  COVID-19 collapses Ecuador: 30,000 confirmed cases and no certainty on death toll

  

  Ecuador on Monday exceeded 30,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, while the government launched a plan to start gradually relaxing quarantine measures that have been in place since mid-March. Ecuador has confirmed 31,881 cases of COVID-19, with 1,569 reported deaths and a further 1,336 deaths likely as a result of the virus.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  Strenuous exercise by athletes makes their lungs more COVID-19 vulnerable, warns scientific research

  

  Research from Germany and Italy suggests that footballers and other athletes face a particular risk of the coronavirus infecting their lungs, raising major questions over attempts to restart professional soccer.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Infectology expert Fauci is more popular and trusted than Trump, and the president can't stand it

  

  President Donald Trump said on Monday that he liked leading health expert Anthony Fauci and did not intend to fire him after Fauci said in an interview that earlier mitigation efforts against the coronavirus outbreak could have saved more lives.

• Saturday, March 28th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  ITUC praises Argentina for putting people first in fighting Covid 19

  

  A new analysis from the International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC, of government responses from 69 countries to the COVID-19 pandemic has identified 12 governments that are putting people first as they tackle the economic fallout from lockdown measures to stem the spread of the virus.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Pandemics: Bolsonaro and governors clash over priorities, the economy and jobs or public health

  

  Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo began fifteen days of lockdown to fight the spread of the coronavirus on Tuesday. This after Brazil's own president, Jair Bolsonaro, has faced fierce criticism for his blasé treatment to combat the threat, which he describes as a quote “little flu.”

• Wednesday, March 25th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  Los Angeles reports first death of teenager to Covid 19, despite good health condition

  

  The first known death of a child due to COVID-19 in the United States was a teenager in previously good health, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2020 - 07:42 UTC

  Japan reorganizing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as a testament to the defeat of the new virus in 2021

  

  Japan on Wednesday started the unprecedented task of reorganizing the Tokyo Olympics after the historic decision to postpone the world's biggest sporting event due to the coronavirus pandemic that has locked down one-third of the planet.

• Wednesday, March 18th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  Whatever you call it, Beijing has made a mess of the Covid-19, 'China virus' and jinbu

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has run afoul of the language police. Last week, he called the coronavirus, which already has killed 0.000013 percent of the world’s population, the “Wuhan virus.” When challenged about this criminal violation of linguistic propriety, he just said it again. The World Health Organization (WHO) was shocked.

• Wednesday, February 12th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Coronavirus, COVID-19, “Public Enemy Number 1” and more powerful than a terrorist attack, WHO chief

  

  China's coronavirus outbreak poses a “very grave threat for the rest of the world” and should be viewed as “Public Enemy Number 1”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, February 11th 2020 - 07:40 UTC

  Germany reports outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus

  

  Germany has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus in a backyard in the southwestern part of the country, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.