HEALTH

                 Charity group Oxfam have warned that a recession caused by Coronavirus could push an extra half billion people into poverty unless urgent action is taken, conducted by King's College London and the Australian National University, the research gauged the short-term impact of containing the Coronavirus on global monetary poverty based on the World Bank poverty lines from 1.90 $ to 5.50 $ a day, global poverty levels would increase under all three scenarios for the first time since 1990 according to the analysis with up to a decade of progress lost globally, the impact is set to be even worse in some hard hit parts of the world such as North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East where up to 30 years of progress could be wiped out. The most serious scenario involves a 20% fall in income which would result in an additional 548 million people earning less than the World Bank poverty threshold of 5.50$ per day, the Unit...

            As the daily number of new infections appears to be falling in parts of the world, some fear the epicenter of Coronavirus could move to continent, despite efforts to lock down cities and countries, donations of protective equipment, testing kits and ventilators from China, one thing is clear Africa has not yet flattened the curve and the room for man oeuvre is getting smaller. A healthcare facility in Kenya's funding, Nairobi has actually been creating brand new beds preparing for a surge in Coronavirus situations, Africa has actually passed the grim turning point of 10,000 reported situations of Coronavirus, together with greater than 500 fatalities, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ACDC, as the everyday number of brand new cases seems dropping in components of the globe, some worry the epicenter of the infection might relocate to the continent. Around 60% of Kenyan capital's 4.4 million inhabitants live in...

                  When the novel Coronavirus has reached 210 countries and territories around the world, several countries tested negative, ruling out the earlier suspected cases, although some of them later reported confirmed cases, according to the count being kept by the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus resource center. What should we make of the countries that have not reported cases? Are they unable to test? Are they lying about their reports? Are they that isolated? The bulk of the states that have not yet reported cases are small Pacific Island nations followed by a handful in Asia and Africa. The Solomon Islands reported 4 suspected cases of Coronavirus on February 10 on board the MV Expert container ship, which docked at the Rennell and Bellona province of the country, samples taken from the 4 cases were sent to the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory VIDRL based in Melbourne Australia for testing and ann...

                 The Premier League Players have launched a collective initiative  to help generate funds for the National Health Service and distribute them where they are needed most , the initiative named Players Together  has been set up to help those fighting for us on the NHS front line amid the Coronavirus pandemic. The plan is separate to any other club and league conversations  and is designed to get money into the hands of those who need it most, the statement released on Wednesday posted by more than 150 top flight players on social media, they said they were collaborating together to create a voluntary initiative, separate to any other league and club conversation, to try and help along with so many others in the country, to make a real difference.  After there has been much discussion over how Premier League Players can best help fight the Coronavirus, which has caused more than 7,000 deaths in the UK thus...

                Fever, cough and shortness of breath. Those are the three symptoms prominently listed on the World Health Organization's website under Coronavirus symptoms, but as case counts continue to rise in the United States and across the world, it's clear that Covid-19, causes a much wider range of symptoms, the more detailed descriptions of the illness that are emerging show how doctors and researchers are still learning about the disease in real time, the pandemic which was first reported just three months ago, Covid-19 can begin in similar ways among patients, regardless of a person's age or health status. One of the first major reports on Coronavirus symptoms was published by the WHO in February, following their mission to China, that report based on nearly 56,000 cases there, found the most common symptoms were fever 88%, dry cough 68% and nearly 40% of those patients experienced fatigue, shortness of breath, stomach issues and wea...

                     From Europe to South America, US allies are complaining about the superpower's wild west  tactics in outbidding or blocking shipments to buyers who have already signed deals for vital medical supplies, faced with changing official opinion and growing confusion among the general public about whether or not masks help to protect people from Coronavirus epidemic, the official stance on the wearing of masks has evolved in recent days, in France and Germany senior officials said the United States was paying for above the market price for medical grade masks from China, on occasion winning contracts through higher bids even after European buyers believed a deal was done and Brazil's Health Minister reported a similar incident, one high level official in German government source said, Money is irrelevant, they pay any price because they are desperate. Americans are on the move, carrying a lot of money.  S...

             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 ...

                  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...

                 As the new Coronavirus that has killed more than 24,000 people continues to spread around the world, Russia has stepped up its measures to tackle the pandemic and prevent its spread within the country, there have been 1,036 cases of COVID-19 infections reported in Russia so far and 4 deaths. The authorities confirmed 196 new cases on Friday, bringing the country's official number of cases up to more than thousand and making the largest one-day increase in cases so far, it also said one person had died in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to 4, Russia will suspend all regular and charter flights to other countries starting today, President Vladimir Putin has declared that the week from March 28 to April 5 will be a nationwide paid holiday to encourage Russians to stay home and slow the spread of the virus. All restaurants and cafes have been ordered to close during this time with the exception of delive...

                     The World Health Organization experts and according to latest statistics are saying that the United States is going to be the epicenter of Coronavirus outbreak, as the country is seeing a very large acceleration in cases, this comes amid concern the US president could be prioritizing the economy in his crisis response. Trump said he was eager to reopen the US economy in weeks, not months, even as the death toll from COVID-19 continued to rise, with more than 25,000 positive tests and 210 deaths, New York has become the epicenter of Coronavirus in the United States, the city now at a standstill faces a tsunami of sick and dying people , the Attack rate of the virus, the percentage of the population infected , is five times higher than in other parts of the country , leading Dr Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, to warn "To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the gro...

                                              Earlier this year, when the first reports of the Coronavirus started to come out of China, globale health officials said they were very worried about what would happen if COVID-19 started spreading in Africa, where many health systems are already struggling, well Africa now affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, so far the number of reported cases remains growing more than 1,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been identified in 40 African countries that have so far spared from the Coronavirus outbreak, but in reality they are likely to be hit the hardest, according to recent assessment obviously brought to evolve, Uganda and Eritrea joined the list of African countries which announced last weekend their first confirmed cases, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mauritius and Kenya have reported additional cases, from Burkina Faso in west ...