HEALTH

                  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...

               In the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic in late February, fake news has multiplied and invaded social networks, the World Health Organization twisted the neck of several web sites denouncing their spread and insisting on correcting a large number of false informations. Many governments had the aim to highlight verified informations from official sources and also to spot fake news on the internet as quickly as possible in order to reduce their rise, they start managing to slip through the cracks and help to disentangle the true from the false. Like the one that announced the US military bring the Covid-19 to Wuhan in October 2019,  there are persistent rumors that the United states has a role to play in the spread of Coronavirus in China, a video was in the media in March 12, the Director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield said it was likely that Coronavirus deaths had not been identified ...

                 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...

                     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...

                More than a million cases of Coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University, another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic, nearly 54,000 have died and more than 212,000 have recovered, the US has the most cases and more than 1,000 died there in the past day, the disease first emerged in central China three months ago, though the Italy kept be Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher, it took a month and a half for the first 100,000 cases to be registered, a million was reached after a doubling in cases over the past week. Nearly a quarter of cases have been registered in the United States while Europe accounts for around half, the pandemic is taking a huge economic toll, as an extra 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefit last week. Morgues and hospitals in New York City...

             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 ...

               We can pick up virus by touching surfaces contaminated with the new Coronavirus, but it is only just becoming clear how long the virus can survive outside the human body. As Coronavirus has spread, so has our fear of surfaces, these are now some familiar scenes in public places around the world people trying to open doors with their elbows, commuters studiously surfing their way through train journeys to avoid grabbing a handle, office workers rubbing down their desks each morning. In the areas worst hit by the new Coronavirus, teams of Workers in protective clothing have been dispatched to spray a fog of disinfectant in plazas, parks and public streets. Cleaning regimes in offices, hospitals, shops and restaurants have been increased, in some cities well meaning volunteers even venture out at night to scrub the keypads of cash machines. Like many respiratory viruses, including flu, COVID-19 can be spread in tiny droplets relea...

                  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...