As Iran faces one of the most serious surges in COVID-19 cases around the world, WHO’s Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, welcomed US President Donald Trump’s olive branch toward its bitter enemy, who on Monday told the Conservative Political Action Congress “if we can help the Iranians with this problem we are certainly willing […] Continue reading ->
While health leaders battle a global outbreak of a dangerous new virus, a consortium of partners is entering the fight against one of humankind’s oldest infectious diseases, tuberculosis. A group of philanthropic, non-profit, and private sector organizations on Thursday launched a collaboration to accelerate development for a “pan-TB” treatment regimen to treat drug-sensitive and drug-resistant […] Continue reading ->
China has reported it’s lowest level of new COVID-19 infections in a month, with just 327 cases over the past 24 hours. At the same time, cases abroad exploded overnight with 1,000 more people reported to be infected with the virus in some 49 countries. Most f new cases were heavily concentrated in the emerging […] Continue reading ->
For the second day in a row, new COVID-19 cases outside of China exceeded those inside the country on Thursday. According to the latest data Thusday evening, there were now 4,053 cases in 44 countries outside of mainland China, and at least 54 deaths. The biggest hotspots remained Italy, Iran and Korea, but shifting numbers […] Continue reading ->
Governments around the world are ramping up COVID-19 containment measures as new infections outside of China surged by 497 cases over the past 24 hours, outnumbering those inside the country for the first time ever during the epidemic. The increase abroad was largely linked to an acceleration of COVID-19 outbreaks in Italy, Iran, and South […] Continue reading ->
COVID-19 can be beaten – but it will take a big mindset shift on the part of the global community to achieve what China has done – which is dramatically curb transmission of the new, mysterious and deadly coronavirus using traditional public health measures for digilent tracing of contacts, isolating those found to be ill; […] Continue reading ->
With spiraling outbreaks of COVID-19 in 3 countries, Iran, Italy, and Korea, WHO officials warned Monday of growing risks that the epidemic could become a full-fledged pandemic – although Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stepped back from the brink, telling a press briefing on Monday: “Does this virus have pandemic potential? Absolutely it has. Are we […] Continue reading ->
Containing an explosion of COVID-19 cases in Korea and Iran have become top priorities for global health officials battling to prevent the epidemic from growing into a worldwide pandemic. While new lab-confirmed cases in China on Friday numbered 896, more than double the day before, that was still part of an generally downward trend as […] Continue reading ->
A sharp decline in new COVID-19 cases was reported by China on Thursday, providing a glimmer of hope about the potential to still contain the epidemic – but only if the steady increase being seen in new cases abroad can now be brought under control. As of 3 p.m. Central European Time (CET), official Chinese […] Continue reading ->
Experts were closely watching the development of Japan’s COVID-19 outbreak for signs of whether the virus might escape further out of control, moving closer to the tipping point of a pandemic – the worldwide spread of a new disease. Meanwhile, a new study in The Lancet found that in Africa, Egypt, Algeria and South Africa […] Continue reading ->
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