Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than 350,000 deaths from the new coronavirus have been recorded worldwide since it first appeared in China in December, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources as of 0600 GMT. A total of 350,196 deaths have been reported, from 5,589,389 cases, including 173,713 in Europe from 2,057,414 […]
(HealthDay)—Without quick action, the new coronavirus could sicken up to a quarter-billion people in Africa during the pandemic’s first year and claim 190,000 lives, a new modeling forecast suggests. Up to 5.5 million people could require hospitalization, 140,000 could have severe COVID-19, and 89,000 would be critically ill, the World Health Organization study says. The […]
Germany on Wednesday unveiled a plan for reopening, as Europe’s largest economy tries to get the wheels turning after weeks of shutdown, as the deadly coronavirus continued to wreak havoc in the United States with a spike in the daily death toll. The cautious steps towards normality came as South Korea leapt back to life […]
France on Wednesday reported 544 more deaths from COVID-19 in hospitals and nursing homes over the last 24 hours, but registered new falls in the total numbers of coronavirus patients. The total toll from the epidemic in France has now risen to 21,340, top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters, while adding that there were […]
Belgium’s death toll from the novel coronavirus passed the 500 mark Monday, with almost 12,000 cases detected since the start of the epidemic. Health authorities in the country of 11.4 million said 513 COVID-19 deaths had been recorded and 11,899 cases confirmed by laboratory tests. But officials said the rise in admissions to hospital and […]
A Harvard public health professor warned Tuesday that the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. could rank among the world’s worst if the nation fails to take steps to ease the health and economic impacts on America’s poor, who face challenges rare among developed countries. Mary Bassett, François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Professor of the Practice of Health […]
France on Friday reported 78 more deaths from the coronavirus over the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from the outbreak in the country to 450 people. Top French health official Jerome Salomon told reporters that 12,612 people were now confirmed by tests in France to have been infected with the coronavirus, while […]
Coronavirus death toll tops 10,000 worldwide as crisis continues to escalate in Europe Total deaths have reached 10,000 and there are more than 245,600 cases The coronavirus is ravaging Europe, which accounts for half of deaths China accounts for a third of victims having battled COVID-19 since December Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you […]
Another SPIKE in coronavirus cases in China with 5,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours as death toll nears 1,400 in China China has reported another sharp rise in the number of people infected with the killer coronavirus, with the death toll now nearing 1,400. The National Health Commission said 121 more deaths were recorded […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A deadly viral outbreak in China has now killed 41 people, while the number of infected cases has soared to nearly 1,300, authorities said Saturday. The 15 new deaths all took place in Wuhan, the city of 11 million where the deadly respiratory contagion first emerged, the Hubei Health Commission said. […]
