Tag: 2019 Novel Coronavir

PARIS (Reuters) – France plans to extend the state of emergency until next year’s summer to deal with the continuing coronavirus epidemic, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday. “What we will propose to the parliament is to maintain for several more months, until the summer, the possibility of using it”, Attal told reporters after

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Sydney residents who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 risk being barred from various social activities even when they are freed from stay-at-home orders in December, New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned on Tuesday. Under a roadmap to exit lockdown in Australia’s biggest city, unvaccinated people are already subject to delays

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Friday approved drugmaker Celltrion Inc’s antibody COVID-19 treatment for infected adults in high-risk groups or those with severe symptoms. Phase III clinical trials showed the monoclonal antibodies significantly reduced deterioration of COVID-19 symptoms to severe levels and shortened recovery, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said in a

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A COVID-19 booster shot is a way to keep the most vulnerable safe and not a luxury robbing people who have yet to have even a single jab, a senior World Health Organization official said on Monday. The comments from WHO Europe head Hans Kluge appeared to be more positive than the

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s public health minister said on Sunday efforts were underway to restart the country’s main oxygen factory which had broken down even as the death toll from COVID-19 on Saturday reached 98, equal to the pandemic record. Minister Jose Angel Portal’s appearance on the state’s mid-day news broadcast came as a Delta-driven

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Acute telogen effluvium (TE) following COVID-19 appears to occur sooner, with quicker resolution, than when TE is triggered by other events, clinicians have observed. TE is form of alopecia characterized by diffuse hair shedding, often with an acute onset. TE is a reactive process caused by physical or emotional stress,

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Denmark saw a drastic reduction in hospital admissions for diseases other than COVID-19 during the national lockdowns last year, and this decrease tended to be accompanied by increased death rates among those hospitalized, according to new findings. The reasons behind the higher mortality are complex, however, Dr. Jacob Bodilsen of

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A meta-analysis of SARS-CoV-2 epitopes targeted by T cells in convalescent patients identified 20 that are prevalent in multiple cohorts, and potentially relevant to vaccine development and diagnostics, researchers say. “Increasing evidence suggests T-cell immunity to be an important factor in protecting against severe COVID-19 disease,” Drs. Matthew McKay and

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s centre-left, minority government failed in several aspects of its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, parliament’s constitutional committee said on Thursday. The government was slow to put in place a testing and tracing system, failed to protect the elderly, and there was a lack of clear lines of responsibility between national and

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI (XeMRI) can detect lung abnormalities in patients with breathlessness following COVID-19 pneumonia that are not evident on routine tests, according to a preliminary report from researchers in the U.K. In nine patients evaluated at three months or longer after hospital discharge for COVID-19, XeMRI showed alveolar-capillary diffusion

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Almost half of the more than 3.4 million COVID-19 deaths reported so far in the world have occurred in the Americas, but the real numbers may be higher, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned on Wednesday. Last week, the World Health Organization said COVID deaths were being significantly undercounted worldwide. “According