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21 people diagnosed with COVID-19 at Newton County long-term care facility
The health department said the facility is located in Lincoln Township. A 74-year-old woman died in John Hunter Hospital and a 79-year-old man died in the Northern Beaches Hospital. Both were passengers on the infamous Ruby Princess cruise ship and contracted the virus while on board. Eleven sick crew members who have been evacuated from the ship remain in Sydney health facilities. [Full Article...]
S Korea reports 91 recovered coronavirus patients test positive again
Medical experts can't say for sure yet, though many have been hopeful that immunity would arise naturally. But Dr. Jeong Eun-Kyeon , director of South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, believes that COVID-19 might reactivate in someone who has been considered cured, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. [Full Article...]
Angara donates own blood plasma to help infected patients
The plasma will be collected and processed by the Welsh Blood Service. "This trial is just the first step, but hopefully it will help us determine if plasma transfusions can be a treatment for critically ill patients with COVID-19", said Maria Lucia Madariaga, MD, a general thoracic and lung transplant surgeon at UChicago Medicine who is leading the clinical trial. [Full Article...]
Blood plasma of COVID-19 recovered patients doing magic
They noted both SARS and MERS are also types of coronavirus. Currently, COVID-19 convalescent plasma is regulated as an investigational product in the USA, and hospitals and medical facilities need to collect the plasma from an FDA-registered blood establishment. [Full Article...]
IL surpasses 20000 confirmed cases of COVID-19
The number of deaths reported Sunday was the lowest in six days. Known cases now exist in 86 of 102 counties. In that, Pritzker said, there could be silver lining. "So I'm talking to industry leaders about that". I am talking to economists about that. Thirty deaths were reported in the county Sunday: a man in his 40s, three women in their 50s, two men in their 50s, a woman in her 60s, three me... [Full Article...]
U.K.'s Boris Johnson leaves hospital after personal COVID-19 battle
UUP leader Steve Aiken also welcomed the news of Mr Johnson's discharge, tweeting: "Good to see him out of hospital". Downing Street said the UK PM would continue his recovery at his country residence, Chequers. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is now in charge of running the government, with aides reportedly expecting Johnson to be out of action for as long as a month. [Full Article...]
19 new cases of COVID-19, 1 additional death
The new total number of cases is 1349 - 798 of them are active. The death toll from the most infectious coronavirus has by now amounted to four in the New Zealand's land. The cluster now has 29* confirmed or probable cases. The total number of cases in the cluster is 28. Even if New Zealand won the battle here, we were still part of the glovbal economy. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus survivor Angara donates blood plasma for COVID-19 patients
As per reports , the three coronavirus patients who are being treated at Houston's St Luke's Medical Centre have been treated with convalescent plasma therapy after having found recently recovered COVID-19 patients whose blood groups matches with them. [Full Article...]