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Wedding ceremony during Italy’s lockdown in Naples, March 20, 2020 © Reuters / Ciro de Luca Deputy health minister Pierpaolo Sileri said that normal life would only return to Italy after an inoculation was readily available, as the country’s new infection rate continued to decline. The politician, who fell victim to virus himself but has […]

Image on the left shows 71-year-old virus patient’s chest X-ray before plasma therapy at Severance Hospital in Shinchon and the right was taken after undergoing treament. (Severance Hospital) Two patients infected with COVID-19 have recovered after plasma treatments, in the first such cases here, a Seoul-based hospital said Tuesday. Doctors at Severance Hospital in Shincheon had plasma […]

A Saudi man walks past a poster depicting Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, after a curfew was imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 25, 2020. (Reuters) Saudi Arabia’s health minister said the Kingdom’s coronavirus cases could reach between 10,000 to 200,000 within weeks based on four […]

PM is a fighter – I’m confident he’ll pull through’ The foreign secretary says he is “confident” the prime minister will “pull through” after he was put into intensive care on Monday. Dominic Raab, who is now formally deputising for Boris Johnson, was speaking at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.  He reiterated that the […]

Teachers hands out face masks to students in Huizhi Middle School in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, April 7, 2020. Students in the final year of junior high schools or vocational schools returned to school on Tuesday in Shaanxi. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao) Students queue up to go through body temperature monitoring system in Huizhi Middle School […]

The Covid-19 pandemic underscores the urgent need to strengthen the global health workforce. A new report, The State of the World’s Nursing 2020, provides an in-depth look at the largest component of the health workforce. Findings identify important gaps in the nursing workforce and priority areas for investment in nursing education, jobs, and leadership to strengthen nursing […]

A pedestrian walks past a quotation board displaying share prices of the Tokyo Stock Exchangein Tokyo on April 7, 2020. (AFP Photo) Investors have been waiting anxiously for signs that the rate of new infections may be hitting its peak, which would give some clarity about how long the upcoming recession will last and how […]

MPrime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a meeting of government and ruling party officials at the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday prior to declaring a state of emergency. | KYODO Prime Minister Shinzo Abe officially declared a state of emergency Tuesday covering Tokyo, Osaka and five prefectures over the rapidly growing novel coronavirus outbreak Tuesday, putting […]

  WASHINGTON – A second US company is poised to begin safety test of a vaccine against COVID-19 on Monday. Inovio Pharmaceuticals said Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for INO-4800, its DNA vaccine candidate designed to prevent COVID-19 infection, paving the way […]

The ICU at the Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona.PAU BARRENA After more than three weeks of lockdown in Spain, the country’s intensive care units (ICUs) are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. While they continue to be overloaded, with their usual capacity multiplied by as much as four times, and their […]