COVID19

CLOSE Lee County has lost about 900 units of blood that patients need due to blood drive cancellations. There are blood drives set Sunday, March 22, 2020 and during the coming week. Fort Myers News-Press To provide our community with important public safety information, our newsroom is making stories related to the coronavirus free to …

BREAKING: Malaysia Records 10th Death From Covid-19, Victim is from Tabligh Cluster

Like us on Facebook for great stories daily! Listen to this post: Two more deaths were recorded today adding the COVID-19 related death toll to 10 as of 22nd March 2020. Announced by Director General of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, via the Ministry of Health Facebook page this afternoon, the 9th patient that …

Salem’s Sona College of Technology and Vee Technologies tackle Covid-19 with ‘Corona-Scan’ and ‘Corona-Support’ apps

Engineering students of Sona College of Technology, Salem, and engineers of Vee Technologies, Bengaluru, a business process management company, have developed ‘Corona-Scan’ and ‘Corona-Support’ apps in response to the Covid-19 crisis. The first of these, ‘Corona-Scan’ pro-actively allows public health officials to map individuals who are in close proximity with a possibly infected or active …

Saving Our Own: COVID-19 Presents Challenges and Opportunities in Technology

The unprecedented spread of the COVID-19 outbreak is overwhelming healthcare systems across the world. In less than three months, the virus has impacted 177 countries or territories (including cruise ships) infecting over 2,30,000 people and killing over 11,000. The rapidity of community spread has left policymakers and bureaucrats scrambling for ways to bolster an overworked …

Local religious leaders turn to technology in a time of isolation | Covid-19

They once preached to pews full of people, now they’re tinkering with Zoom, learning to e-blast and livestreaming to online groups of invisible worshippers. Pastors, priests and religious leaders have taken to social media and other modes of electronic communication to tend to the spiritual needs of their flocks in this new age of COVID-19. “We’ve been …

BREAKING NEWS: 40 at Camp Balandra in Trinidad & Tobago positive for COVID-19; cases now at 49

Share This On: Some of the quarantined people settling in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Camp Balandra on Wednesday. Photo: M.Gonzales (TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) — Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh has confirmed that there are 40 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Trinidad and Tobago, taking the overall national figure to 49 cases. Speaking at a …

BREAKING: Confirmed COVID-19 Case in Clare County, Two Presumptive Positive in Charlevoix and Emmet Counties

Health officials have announced three new cases of COVID-19 in Northern Michigan. One has been confirmed while the other two are presumptive positive cases. The confirmed positive case is in Clare County. As of right now, there is no information about who tested positive. Their travel and medical history are also unknown. In Charlevoix County, …

NHS block books almost all private hospital sector capacity to fight covid-19 | News

The emergency agreement, announced this afternoon and only for the NHS in England, adds around 8,000 hospital beds, nearly 1,200 more ventilators, more than 10,000 nurses, 700 doctors and 8,000 other clinical staff. Private sector providers said all facilities would be provided at cost price under the deal. The NHS said it would continue to …

TDB invites technology proposals for fighting Covid-19 | India News