HEALTH

                 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...

                If a person develops symptoms of Coronavirus disease no matter the way get infected with, the doctor will determine whether to conduct tests for Coronavirus based on the symptoms, as well as having close contact with someone diagnosed with Coronavirus or traveled to or lived in any areas with ongoing community spread of Covid-19 in the past 14 days, the doctor may also consider testing if there is a higher risk of serious illness, to test for Coronavirus, a health care provider uses a long swab to take a nasal sample or a coughing up saliva sample. The sample is then sent to a lab for testing. There are laboratory tests that can identify the virus that causes Coronavirus in respiratory specimens, state and local public health departments have received tests from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC while medical providers are getting tests developed by commercial manufacturers. Scientists across the world are rac...

                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 ...

                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...

               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...

 It wasn't until late December that Chinese officials realized they had a new virus on their hands but even then, China's government clamped down on sharing information about it with the public, according to The Wall Street Journal. A person believed to be the first ever human infected with COVID-19 has broken her silence, Wei Guixian is a 57 year old seafood merchant at the Huanan Market in Wuhan where the virus is suspected to have first made the jump from a bat to human, she described how she first started to feel ill on December 10, believing she had caught a cold or maybe the flu. "I felt a bit tired but not as tired as previous years, every winter, I always suffer from the flu, so i thought it was the flu" she said. The next day she walked to a small local clinic and got the usual treatment and an injection, before going back to work, the first steps in a global pandemic that has infected over half a million and killed more than 25,000 so far. When her symp...

                    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...