HEALTH

            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...

               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...

                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...

                             The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 that the chair of Harvard University's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department  Doctor Charles Lieber with two Chinese nationals have been charged with making false statements about his involvement and connection with aiding the People's Republic of China program to recruit foreign researchers and tried to help the Chinese government. “ It appears China paid Lieber hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years for his involvement with the Chinese entities and for his work on research for Chinese gain ” said U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling. Dr Charles Lieber, 60 years old, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false fictitious and fraudulent statement, Dr Charles ...

                     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...

                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 ...

                   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...