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Health officials concerned by increase in measles cases in state, potential for outbreak
News Release Sept. 29, 2022 Contact information Parents urged to make sure children are up to date on immunizations The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is working with local public health agencies and health care providers in the Twin Cities area to investigate 13 cases of measles that occurred June …
Albanese lands in Japan; Flood warnings across country; Monkeypox outbreak linked to raves; Russian soldier sentenced in Ukraine; NSW records 8751 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths; 11,656 new cases in Victoria, 16 deaths
Anthony Albanese has been sworn in as prime minister, but we are still some way off knowing whether Labor can form government in its own right. Labor currently has 74 seats, with two more needed for a majority. Seven seats are still too close to call as ballots are counted and preferences are distributed. Labor’s …
Health officials predict more monkeypox cases, but no widespread outbreak
Health officials downplayed fears of a monkeypox outbreak on Saturday after confirming the first case of the disease in Israel, and as health officials wrapped up a meeting about the viral infection, which has been surfacing in Europe and North America. Israel’s first suspected case was reported on Friday, and confirmed during the meeting Saturday …
North Korea reports another fever surge amid virus outbreak
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Tuesday reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be Covid-19 as a mass outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population and military medical officers were deployed to distribute medicine. State media said the North’s anti-virus headquarters reported an additional 269,510 people were found with fevers and six people …
BREAKING: North Korea confirms 21 new deaths due to ‘fever’ since Covid outbreak
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N. Korea reports 6 deaths after admitting COVID-19 outbreak
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday that six people died and hundreds of thousands of others fell ill amid an explosive spread of fever across the nation, a day after it acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak in a largely unvaccinated population for the first time since the pandemic began. The true scale of …
China sends in military to help with Shanghai COVID outbreak
The highly contagious omicron BA.2 form of the virus is testing China’s ability to maintain its zero-COVID approach, which aims to stop outbreaks from spreading by isolating everyone who tests positive, whether they have symptoms or not. Shanghai has converted an exhibition hall and other facilities into massive isolation centers where people with mild or …
New laws say patients can have visitors even in an outbreak : Shots
Mary Daniel took a dishwasher job at her husband’s Florida memory care facility to see him during the initial coronavirus lockdown. She has been fighting for visitation rights ever since. Tiffany Manning for NPR Mary Daniel took a dishwasher job at her husband’s Florida memory care facility to see him during the initial …
Match found for Melbourne Delta outbreak; Two new COVID-19 cases in Victoria; Wild weather to hit the south-east; Major crime raids carried out
Professor Cheng says the Delta strain of COVID-19 most likely entered the community after the returned traveller infected a staff member or another resident in quarantine. He said the investigation was looking at four possibilities overall, of varying likelihood. “The first one, so there was someone else infected on the plane and they have got …
Victorian man connected to Perth hotel outbreak contracts COVID-19; Dutton warns China after trade deal scrapped; Sydney workers unknowingly boarded virus-stricken ship; Brisbane police officer returns to work after blood clot following Pfizer vaccine
British lawmakers have unanimously declared China’s ongoing crackdown in Xinjiang a genocide, joining the United States, Canada and the Netherlands in condemning Beijing’s actions against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-west region in the strongest possible terms. China has been accused of detaining up to two million people in a system of camps …
