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Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 5 (PTI) As health workers grapple with the COVID-19 scourge, scientistsat the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) here has developedcanister bags lined with super absorbent material containing an effective disinfectantfor the safe management of infected respiratory secretions. The SCTIMST, anInstitute of national importance under the Department of Science …

Here are some significant developments: Democrats assailed President Trump’s efforts to undermine the Postal Service as millions of Americans prepare to vote by mail amid the pandemic. “What you are witnessing is a president of the United States who is doing everything he can to suppress the vote, make it harder for people to engage …

ICHINOSEKI, Japan—One of the developed world’s last regions untouched by Covid-19 reported its first cases as a day of new infection milestones in Japan suggested the country’s success in stemming the new coronavirus was unraveling. Two people in the prefecture of Iwate were confirmed to have the virus on Wednesday, the first infections in the …

TOPLINE Health officials in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and South Carolina all reported record-high numbers of new daily Covid-19 cases once again Saturday, as states scramble to cope with surges in Covid-19 infections that have plagued the southern and western U.S. this week. Diane, a nurse from Houston, Texas, sunbathes at the beach next to her …

The U.S. set a new, grim record in the number of new coronavirus cases in a single day, adding nearly 46,000 on Friday. The 45,942 single-day increase was driven by more than 8,000 new cases in Florida and thousands more in Texas, Arizona and California, according to an NBC News tally. The national, one-day increase …

June 25, 2020 at 12:25 AM EDT Coronavirus deaths lag behind surging infections but may catch up soon With novel coronavirus infections setting a single-day national record Wednesday, health experts are taking little solace from one of the few bright spots in the current resurgence: Deaths are not rising in lockstep with caseloads. But that …

The two reports, published simultaneously Monday in the journal Nature, used completely different methods to reach similar conclusions. They suggest that the aggressive and unprecedented shutdowns, which caused massive economic disruptions and job losses, were effective at halting the exponential spread of the novel coronavirus. “Without these policies employed, we would have lived through a …

with Paulina Firozi Nursing homes were already doing a poor job of preventing infections, even before the coronavirus pandemic. Now the virus is tearing through many of them. A new government report finds that nearly half of all nursing homes repeatedly fell short in meeting federal standards to prevent infections between 2013 and 2017. More …

NCDC statistics By Kazeem Ugbodaga Nigeria’s Coronavirus cases have soared to 542 cases, with the release of 49 new cases on Saturday by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. Of the 49 new cases, Lagos has 23 cases, Abuja, 12, Kano 10, Ogun two. Oyo one and Ekiti, one. “Forty-nine new cases of #COVID19 …