SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea reported 34 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest daily number in a month, after a small outbreak emerged around a slew of nightclubs that a confirmed patient had visited. FILE PHOTO: People wearing masks to avoid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) shop at an outlet mall in… Read More »
Is a more deadly second peak inevitable? Italy WILL face another coronavirus wave that is even more lethal as lockdown is eased, according to grim Imperial College London projection London researchers mathematically modelled how virus would spread and kill in Italy in three scenarios If population went back to just 20 per cent of their… Read More »
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As of Wednesday morning, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 3,207,248 people across 185 countries and territories, resulting in over 227,971 deaths. In the U.S., all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19,… Read More »
Bowen kept thinking about the next pandemic, when the supply of masks from China might plummet and the demand for domestic masks might surge again. He sent letters warning about a potential supply-chain problem to President Obama in 2010, and to President Trump in 2017; he wrote to the Defense Secretary; to hospital-safety associations; to… Read More »
Coronavirus tests for UK key workers were booked up through the government website within an hour of it reopening, apart from some in Scotland. The site had to close to new applicants within hours of launching on Friday, after 46,000 people tried to access it. Some 16,000 bookings were made. Home testing kits became unavailable… Read More »