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How to properly use hand sanitizer to help prevent coronavirus
You should wash your hands for at least 20 seconds, she said, adding that the old trick to sing your ABCs helps mark time. Hand sanitisers with 60% alcohol are also effective against a broad range of bacteria too . This isn't needed, but most pocket hand sanitizers these days have some fragrance, and if you're used to the smell, it doesn't cost much to pick up a few essential oils. [Full Article...]
IL 2020: Biden Leads Sanders in the Prairie State
Sanders' campaign has said it will address plans on a day-to-day basis. Public fears are being compounded by a pervasive lack of trust in this president. Sanders and 1% for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, according to the University of North Florida poll. The majority of Illinois Democratic Primary Voters said that based on everything that they have seen, read, or heard about Coronavirus, they ar... [Full Article...]
The coronavirus is now a pandemic - what does this mean for us?
Of those, more than 68,000 have recovered, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the virus. By contrast, this H1N1 pandemic caused most of its severe or fatal disease in younger people, both those with chronic conditions as well as healthy persons, and caused many more cases of viral pneumonia than is normally seen with seasonal influenza, World Health Organi... [Full Article...]
Health Officials advise against all non-essential travel
Henry said the advice against global travel extends to the US, and that anyone who chooses to leave the country should stay home from work or school for 14 days. "So that again increases the number of people in our province who've been associated with travel to Egypt", said Henry. The last case announced Thursday is a man in his 50s. [Full Article...]
COVID-19 CONCERNS | Gov. Beshear urges churches to cancel services
However, he is pushing for it because numerous attendees are members of high-risk populations and churches put people in close proximity to one another. Two new coronavirus cases - one in Fayette and one in Jefferson counties - have been confirmed in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday evening in his daily update. [Full Article...]
Joe Biden unveils coronavirus response plan, blasts Trump administration
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a plan to combat and overcome the coronavirus . Biden said in a speech in Wilmington, Delaware. The next day, Sanders held a press conference to give a status update on his campaign, telling reporters that he isn't going anywhere and that he looked forward to debating Biden on March 15 in Arizona. [Full Article...]
What you need to know about pets and COVID-19
Now isolated two dogs - the Spitz and pet another patient who had the disease is detected COVID-19. And are they at risk? The dog, from Hong Kong, tested "weak positive" for the virus, and is now in isolation. There is non evidence dogs can spread coronavirus. Experts - including those from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA... [Full Article...]
Trump announces travel ban from Europe amid growing fears of coronavirus
An early fall of 7.0 per cent on Wall Street triggered a trading halt amid the global sell-off but rose slightly after the Federal Reserve announced it would inject up to $US2 trillion into short-term lending markets. "This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history", Trump said in his nationwide address just hours after the World Health Organiz... [Full Article...]