One hundred members of the community were tested after people who had travelled to NY developed symptoms after returning from the USA, said Éric Goyer, the director of public health in the Laurentians. Police, public health officials and security teams from the community are enforcing the quarantine, ordered Sunday by the public health department for the Laurentians region. [Full Article...]
Research, development and lab management company Battelle has received special emergency authorization from the US healthcare regulator to put into use a system it developed to decontaminate used N95 respirator masks using concentrated hydrogen peroxide. [Full Article...]
There is one confirmed case in Lawrence County. "It depends on how the map looks and how de-identifiable it is", Martin said. While the number of positive tests is clearly an underrepresentation of the presumptive spread of the virus in the county - due to a number of reasons, including a lack of tests and a backlog at state and private labs - officials are turning to other means to try to get... [Full Article...]
The order allowed essential businesses to stay open but they should take steps to scale down operations to limit interactions among staff and the public and implement telework as much as possible. "Marylanders need to know that, unfortunately, we are only at the beginning of this crisis". This is an ongoing story. Maryland's governor warned Monday that the national capital region was at a "cri... [Full Article...]
After first appearing in Wuhan, China, last December, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 177 countries and territories, according to data compiled by USA -based Johns Hopkins University. And, he said, there would be a temporary suspension of wrongful trading provisions for company directors to remove the threat of personal liability during the pandemic, which will apply retrospectively... [Full Article...]
Instead, he told reporters at the White House that America's peak infection would happen two weeks from now, and said his Easter revival hopes had been "aspirational". "I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they're going to be". "They were in the warehouse, ready to go, and NY never took them", Trump said . [Full Article...]
Now almost a half dozen students are reported sick with Covid-19 symptoms, and three were sent to a local hospital for testing, per the Times . " Liberty University is an important part of this community", she added. The day Liberty reopened its campus amid the outbreak, Lynchburg's mayor, Treney Tweedy, issued a statement condemning Falwell and the university. [Full Article...]
As part of the arrangement, the US government will pay $421 million to support the company's efforts to build new manufacturing capacity in the United States. J&J also committed more than $1bn of investment along with USA agency Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to co-fund vaccine research, expanding a previous collaboration. [Full Article...]