At a media briefing today following a meeting of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, federal officials added the United Kingdom and Ireland to a travel ban, and President Trump signaled that the administration is considering domestic travel restrictions. On the international COVID-19 front, Spain today became the second European country to go on lockdown, [...]
Compulsory home quarantine will apply to people who have been to any of the three countries, or Egypt, in the previous 14 days The city on Sunday records seven more confirmed cases, bringing total tally to 148 Read more… The post Coronavirus: Hong Kong issues ‘red’ travel alert on the United States, Britain and Ireland [...]
Top infectious disease experts call for tougher measures, including banning non-residents flying in from countries the city has issued red travel alerts for Government says it will start charging people arriving from mainland China HK$200 a day for bed and board in quarantine facilities so system will not be abused Base64, retouched by CarolSpears [...]
Too busy for an office appointment? No transportation to get to the doctor’s office? Maybe it’s time to try the newest trend in health care: online videoconferencing with a doctor. We trust our computers, tablets and smartphones for everything else, why not healthcare? Connecting by videoconference allows a doctor to visually assess your condition and [...]
The 76-year-old woman, who had diabetes, died at 5.13pm in Caritas Medical Centre, Hospital Authority confirmed Among the five new cases, three have no symptoms; three of the infections were likely to be imported Image by skeeze from Pixabay Read more… The post Coronavirus: Hong Kong records third death as five more cases [...]
You are standing before a huge barrel of apples. You can’t see the apples, but you can reach in and pick them out. Most are delicious, but a very small number of them are rotten—just about one in 12,000, your friend assures you. You reach in blindly and miraculously pick out a rotten apple. You [...]
Experts accuse government of acting too slowly and call for more restrictions on people arriving from hard-hit countries such as France and Spain Driver of a patient is latest local case of infection, bringing city’s tally on Monday night to 115 Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels Read more… The post Coronavirus: Hong Kong [...]
In late December 2019, a cluster of unexplained cases of viral pneumonia occurred in Wuhan, China.1 This initial cluster of patients with what soon became known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) heralded the arrival of a new pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). To date, close to 90 000 cases [...]
Infections outside China have risen 13-fold, according to the WHO Officials caution countries to step up containment efforts to prevent Covid-19 from overburdening health care workers Read more… The post World Health Organisation declares coronavirus pandemic as cases soar worldwide appeared first on Healthier Environment Living Program.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pushing the threat beyond the global health emergency it had announced in January. In the WHO’s daily briefing, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said that the label should galvanize the world to fight. However, “describing the situation as a pandemic does not change WHO’s assessment [...]
