Medical
Russian COVID-19 cases top 100000, death toll over 1000
Putin said thanks to forward-thinking measures, Russian Federation managed to get properly prepared for the virus' spread, reorganize the health care system, and stock medicines and equipment, all of which resulted in fewer cases and deaths. [Full Article...]
Contact tracing key to slowing spread of COVID-19
Contact tracing is a process that helped slow or stop previous epidemics like Ebola and SARS. "As we fight the spread of COVID-19, we need the ability to rapidly contact positive patients and their close contacts to determine who else might have been exposed", Gov. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus testing to be further expanded to protect most vulnerable
The eligibility for testing also applies to the workers' immediate family. People with COVID-19 symptoms who can not work from home, such as construction workers , shop owners, plumbers etc, are also able to get tested. Some 41 drive-through centres are now in place with a further 48 going live this week, Mr Hancock said. A delivery service for home testing kits has been designed with indus... [Full Article...]
Gov. Holcomb announces contact tracing plan for COVID-19 cases
All Hoosiers who test positive for COVID-19 will get an email and text, asking them to contact the call center. Plans call for hiring at least 500 employees, who will be trained in contact tracing and investigations by ISDH subject matter experts. [Full Article...]
Georgia Drops Road Test Requirement for Teens Getting Driver's Licenses
Teen drivers are still expected to fulfill all other requirements to obtain a license but the on-road test has been suspended in wake of the coronavirus pandemic. On average the department has 5,000 teens taking the driving test a week. In March 2019, 143 people in Georgia were killed in vehicle accidents on interstates. [Full Article...]
Province announces 34 new COVID-19 cases; total at 2087
The provincial government announced 34 new test positive cases of COVID-19 in B.C. Wednesday. Dr. Henry also gave updates on ongoing community outbreaks including investigations at United Poultry plant in Vancouver and its sister plant, Superior Poultry, in Coquitlam. [Full Article...]
Lansing Urgent Care offers COVID-19 antibody testing
Each test will be reviewed by a licensed physician, and consumers will have the opportunity to speak to a doctor about their results, officials said . Weeks after launching their own COVID-19 molecular testing initiatives, lab giants Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp have begun offering antibody tests nationwide for the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic. [Full Article...]
Top US expert hails 'quite good news' on Gilead Sciences's Remdesivir
The company says another trial by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases met its main goal but is not going into detail. Gilead expects data at the end of May from the second SIMPLE study evaluating the five- and 10-day dosing durations of remdesivir in patients with moderate COVID-19 disease. [Full Article...]