Japan issued fresh landslides and flood warnings Wednesday as torrential rain swept through the country’s center and death toll increased to 54 from downpours days. Heavy rains that began on the island of Kyushu early Saturday have already caused devastation across a swathe of the country’s south-western portion, causing rivers…
WHO says Virus numbers in the Middle East at ‘low level’
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization warned that the Middle East was at a turning point in the fight against the novel coronavirus, with cases surging as countries ease lockdown measures. The 22 countries from Morocco to Pakistan had reported 1,077,706 novel cases of coronavirus and 24,973 deaths, according to…
New Zealand’s health minister resigns after coronavirus criticism
New Zealand ‘s troubled Health Minister resigned Thursday after security slip-ups at quarantine facilities where the coronavirus was identified just days after officials announced it had been eliminated from the country. David Clark was also under fire for violating strict lockdown laws just a year ago, taking his family on…
Cases of U.S. coronavirus increase by nearly 50,000 in the highest spike of one day
According to a Reuters count, new COVID-19 cases in the United States increased by almost 50,000 on Wednesday, marking the largest one-day increase since the pandemic started. The record follows a alert from top government infectious disease expert that the number could soon double to 100,000 cases a day if…
China will be questioned at the central meeting of the WHO on Covid-19 handling
China is expected to be questioned on two of its most important issues at the first meeting of the governing body of the World Health Organization since Covid-19 invaded the globe: the initial treatment of the virus by the Communist Party and the status of Taiwan’s involvement. While the US…
WHO says 8 candidates for the Covid-19 vaccine in clinical trial
According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), a total of eight vaccine candidates for Covid-19 are in the clinical trial while another 110 are in different stages of development across the globe. As governments around the world scramble to curb the contagion, pharmaceutical companies and health institutes in…
US FDA suspends Covid-19 at-home research program backed by Bill Gates
An at-home coronavirus research project in Seattle partially backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it was collaborating with U.S. officials to restart the program after being halted by the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday. The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN), which seeks to track the spread…
China reports five new cases of coronavirus, advisor says second wave danger remains
Mainland China reported five new confirmed COVID-19 cases for May 16, down from eight the previous day, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement on Sunday. Two of the five confirmed cases were so-called imported infections, while three were locally transmitted in northeastern Chinese city of Jilin. The…
China’s Wuhan nearly doubles number of Covid-19 tests per day
The city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus outbreak originated in China, conducted 222,675 nucleic acid tests on May 16, the local health authority said on Sunday, nearly doubling from a day earlier. Wuhan kicked off a campaign on May 14 to look for asymptomatic carriers – people who are…
The US study indicates that Covid-19 is at large risk in wildfire camps
Outbreaks of the coronavirus could sweep through large camps where crews typically stay as they fight wildfires across the US, according to a federal document obtained by The Associated Press, and the problem is likely to get worse the longer the fire season lasts. The US Forest Service’s draft risk…