The Corona-pandemic keeps the world in suspense: More than 17 million people have been infected with the Coronavirus, 209.741 of them in Germany. The United States reported almost daily new record numbers. The latest news on Corona-crisis in Germany, Europe and the world read in the News-Ticker of FOCUS Online. Corona-News from Germany and around […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The United States counted 1,442 new deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in the 24 hours leading up to 8:30 pm Friday (0030 GMT Saturday), according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. It was the fourth day in a row with more than 1,200 deaths, according to the Baltimore-based college. The […]
A German shepherd in New York that had the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in a dog in the U.S. has died. Robert and Allison Mahoney of Staten Island told National Geographic that their 7-year-old shepherd, Buddy, developed breathing problems in mid-April after Robert had been sick with the coronavirus for several weeks. A veterinarian […]
An open-access article published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) investigating the association between coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and stroke subtypes determined that patients with COVID-19 presenting with acute neurologic symptoms warrant a lower threshold for suspicion of large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke, thus necessitating prompt workup. “To our knowledge, this is the first study […]
Australia’s coronavirus hot spot, Victoria state, will make wearing masks compulsory after reporting a record 723 new cases on Thursday, mostly among the vulnerable residents of aged care homes. Masks have been compulsory for the past week in the state capital, Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city with 5 million people, and a neighboring semi-rural district. Victoria […]
Web-based surveillance of the global spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) during the first 11 weeks of the outbreak (Dec 31, 2019, to March 10, 2020), reveals that three-quarters (75/99) of affected countries outside mainland China reported their first COVID-19 case in people who had recently travelled to an affected country—with almost two-thirds […]
Smokers are likely to be more vulnerable to Covid-19 as smoking increases possibility of transmission of virus from hand to mouth, the Union Health Ministry has said, warning that use of tobacco products can increase severity of respiratory infections and make people susceptible to coronavirus. In its document ‘Covid-19 Pandemic and Tobacco Use in India’, […]
Scientists identify 21 drugs that show promise for treating COVID-19 – including four that might be used with remdesivir to combat the virus Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in California screened 12,000 drugs for potential to fight coronavirus They found 21 – including remdesivir, which had not yet been given emergency approval – […]
It may seem like a lifetime ago, but it was only in late January 2020 that Singapore confirmed its first case of the then-novel coronavirus causing COVID-19. Amid the frenzied atmosphere of the Chinese New Year holidays, few would have suspected that the strange pneumonia would snowball into the global pandemic that it is today. […]
Clinician-scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s (NTU Singapore) Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) have demonstrated a way to improve the speed, handling time and cost of COVID-19 laboratory tests. The improved testing method yields results in 36 minutes—a quarter of the time required by existing gold-standard tests. Their new approach could enable the […]
