White House still scrambling to cover virus treatment for the uninsured Patients are getting bills as health providers wait on Trump for information,BY Susannah Luthi And Rachel Roubein
20 April, 2020 Comments Off on White House still scrambling to cover virus treatment for the uninsured Patients are getting bills as health providers wait on Trump for information,BY Susannah Luthi And Rachel Roubein
President Donald Trump. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo The White House pledged over two weeks ago to cover coronavirus treatment for uninsured Americans — but the administration still doesn’t have a plan for how to do it. Trump officials are still grappling with key questions about how exactly to implement the treatment fund, including how to […]
Continue reading …Dozens of suspected Boko Haram fighters found dead in Chad prison An autopsy on four of 44 dead revealed traces of a lethal substance that caused heart attacks and severe asphyxiation(VIDEO)
20 April, 2020 Comments Off on Dozens of suspected Boko Haram fighters found dead in Chad prison An autopsy on four of 44 dead revealed traces of a lethal substance that caused heart attacks and severe asphyxiation(VIDEO)
Chad has been fighting Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region as part of a regional group formed in 2015 [File: AFP] At least 44 suspected members of Boko Haram who were arrested during a recent operation against the group have been found dead in their prison cell in Chad after apparently being poisoned, the […]
Continue reading …President Farmajo confident Somalia will beat COVID-19
20 April, 2020 Comments Off on President Farmajo confident Somalia will beat COVID-19
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has expressed confidence that is country will defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. “I firmly believe our nation shall overcome uncertainties at critical times such as now during this COVID-19,” Farmajo said on Sunday. The president said that the Horn of African nation has a responsibility of providing for its less fortunate […]
Continue reading …Coronavirus: Sweden to achieve partial ‘herd immunity’ in weeks
20 April, 2020 Comments Off on Coronavirus: Sweden to achieve partial ‘herd immunity’ in weeks
People sit at a cafe in central Stockholm amid the coronavirus pandemic. (File photo: AFP) The Swedish model of continuing life as normal despite coronavirus has led to it achieving “herd immunity” in parts of the country, with others to follow within weeks, said the country’s infectious diseases chief according to the British newspaper The […]
Continue reading …COVID-19 threatens to trigger new round of global food crisis, Chinese official says
20 April, 2020 Comments Off on COVID-19 threatens to trigger new round of global food crisis, Chinese official says
Local residents pick asparagus as they work at Dyas Farms, as foreign workers, the backbone of the U.K.’s agriculture force, are missing from the country’s fields thanks to the coronavirus lockdown, in Sevenscore, Britain, April 16, 2020. (Reuters Photo) The global coronavirus pandemic threatens to cause a huge shock to international food trade and trigger […]
Continue reading …THE LATEST: Portapique shooting rampage leaves at least 17 dead, including RCMP officer and suspected killer
20 April, 2020 Comments Off on THE LATEST: Portapique shooting rampage leaves at least 17 dead, including RCMP officer and suspected killer
Police, firefighters and other emergency personnel line Garland Avenue in Dartmouth as the body of an RCMP officer is transported to the Dr. William D. Finn Centre for Forensic Medicine for an autopsy Sunday. – Eric Wynne At least 16 people were killed by a gunman in a 12-hour rampage that began in Portapique late Saturday […]
Continue reading …Recovered patient, 95, sets eyes on the future
20 April, 2020 Comments Off on Recovered patient, 95, sets eyes on the future
Recovered senior COVID-19 patients Xu Ming (right) and Zeng Guangshun talk about their experience with the virus in Wuhan, Hubei province, on April 16, 2020. [Photo by Wang Jing/China Daily] After recovering from the novel coronavirus, Xu Ming, a 95-year-old resident of Wuhan, Hubei province, said he now looks forward to living to 100. When […]
Continue reading …Europe’s COVID-19 death toll over 100,000, but worst-affected countries show signs of ‘improvement’
20 April, 2020 Comments Off on Europe’s COVID-19 death toll over 100,000, but worst-affected countries show signs of ‘improvement’
Today Europe’s COVID-19 death toll has passed 100,000. As of Sunday, April 19, the continent has had more than 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to The European Center for Disease Control. Italy, Spain, France and the United Kingdom are by far the countries that have reported most deaths. However, signs of relative improvement […]
Continue reading …Scientists: Virus mutating, but won’t affect drug, vaccine work
19 April, 2020 Comments Off on Scientists: Virus mutating, but won’t affect drug, vaccine work
A scientist works in the lab o at Tsinghua University’s Research Center for Public Health in Beijing, China, March 30, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] Scientists are now aware that the novel coronavirus is changing its genetic makeup slightly, but the rate of mutation is slow and no evidence of a change in the virus’s biology has been […]
Continue reading …Italy eyes first steps out of lockdown as daily death toll drops
19 April, 2020 Comments Off on Italy eyes first steps out of lockdown as daily death toll drops
People watch a concert from their windoes in the San Basilio suburbs of Rome on Saturday. Photo: AFP As the official number of new coronavirus infections continues to slow, Italy is still debating cautious steps out of a lockdown that has left an estimated half of the working population seeking government support. Italy’s official daily […]
Continue reading …