HEALTH

             The governments have ordered thousands of ventilators to help ease the pressure on hospitals caused by the Coronavirus crisis, for patients with the worst effects of the infection, a ventilator offers the best chance of survival. Simply put, a ventilator takes over the body's breathing process when disease has caused the lungs to fail, this gives the patient time to fight off the infection and recover, various types of medical ventilation can be used.                                                                   According to the World Health Organization WHO, some 80% of people with Covid-19 recover without needing hospital treatment, in these severe cases, the virus causes damage to the lungs, the body's immune system detects this and expands blood vessels so more ...

                   Countries across the globe are taking unprecedented measures to prevent the Coronavirus spreading, ranging from the extreme to the relaxed to the creative. More than a third of the planet's population is under some from of restriction, the World Health Organization, which has officially declared the outbreak a pandemic, has called on all countries to continue efforts that have been effective in limiting the number of cases and slowing the spread of the Covid-19. While lock down is not a technical term used by public health officials, it can refer to anything from mandatory geographic quarantines to non mandatory recommendations to stay at home, closures of certain types of businesses or bans on events and gatherings, according to Lindsay Wiley, a health law professor at the Washington College of Law, Coronavirus restrictions and legislation have already led to political unrest and major governmental changes. On Mon...

                The race is on to find out how the deadly Coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, Helen Briggs looks at how scientists are trying to trace the source of the outbreak. Somewhere in China, a bat flits across the sky, leaving a trace of Coronavirus in its droppings, which fall to the forest floor. A wild animal, possibly a pangolin snuffling for insects among the leaves, picks up the infection from excrement, the novel Covid-19 circulates in wildlife, eventually an infected animal is captured and a person somehow catches the disease, then passes it on to workers at a wildlife market. A global outbreak is born, scientists are attempting to prove the truth of this scenario as they work to find wild animals harboring the Coronavirus. Finding the sequence of events is a bit of a detective story , says Prof Andrew Cunningham of Zoological Society London ZSL, A range of wild animal species could be the host, in particular bats which...

                  Their eyes are tired, their cheekbones rubbed raw from protective masks, they don't smile. The doctors and nurses on the front line of the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets, the flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift as the only barrier to contagion. Associated press photographers fanned out on Friday to photograph them during rare breaks from hospital intensive care units in the Lombardy region cities of Bergamo, Brescia and Rome, in each case, doctors, nurses and paramedics posed in front of forest green surgical draps, the bland backdrop of their sterile wards. Friday was a bad day in Italy as registered the most deaths since the country's outbreak had exploded five weeks earlier, adding 969 more victims to raise the world's highest COVID-19 toll to more than 9,000 which makes Italy surpassed China in total confirmed cases, stands beh...

                    Spain is the second hardest hit country in Europe, Coronavirus is growing exponentially, cases went from 2 to 100 in one week then from 100 to 1,000 and from 1,000 to 4,000 in four days. Since March 14, when the Council of Ministers decreed the state of alarm, the whole of Spain has been formally closed, A huge self isolation in homes of more than 47 million citizens has been announced, who can only go out into the street alone just to work and buy food, medicine or basic items, COVID-19 continues its worldwide expansion, the highest number of those infected is found in the Chinese province of Hubei, where the virus was first detected last December, however while in China the number of infected people continues to add new cases "since last Thursday they have not recorded any new local contagion" beyond the borders of the Asian giant it expands unstoppable, only Iran and Italy add more than 80,000 tested positive c...

        The Italian region of Lombardy has introduced stricter measures in a bid to tackle the spread of Coronavirus, under the new rules announced late on Saturday, sport and physical activity outside, even individually, is banned. Using vending machines is forbidden, the move comes as Italy reported nearly 800 Coronavirus deaths on Saturday March 21 and saw its toll for the past month reach 4,825 as the highest in the world, deaths from COVID-19 have exceeded those reported in china, Lombardy is the worst affected region in the country with 3,095 deaths, the region's President Attilio Fontana announced the new measures in a statement, Business have been asked to close all operations excluding essential supply chains, work on building sites will be stopped apart from those working on hospitals, roads and railways, all open air weekly markets have been suspended. Across Italy there have been 53,578 total cases to date with about 6,000 people having recovered, Lom...