The Welsh government is now "actively considering" imposing quarantine restrictions on people travelling into Wales from areas of Britain with high levels of coronavirus . Public Health Wales said five further deaths had been reported, with the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic rising to 1,678. [Full Article...]
Meanwhile, there have been five new deaths . The number of new COVID-19 cases declined among people younger than age 20 compared with the previous week, according to Public Health data. As recreational sports like hockey and youth soccer return, we have seen an increase in COVID-19 exposures. While this has meant an increase in the overall number of confirmed positive cases , the active cas... [Full Article...]
During Wednesday night's episode of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, Maddow interviewed democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris - and criticized her parent company's decision to hold a town hall for President Donald Trump on Thursday. [Full Article...]
Addressing an global online conference titled "Pandemic 2020: Challenges, Solutions, Consequences", Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko announced Russia's plans to register a second vaccine that he says could bring a permanent end to the coronavirus pandemic. [Full Article...]
The new Coronavirus pandemic has killed more than a million people worldwide. While the United States has had the fourth-highest rate of deaths from COVID-19 itself over the entire course of the pandemic - behind Belgium, Spain and the UK - fatality rates remained highest among Americans after May, when rates had fallen in other hard hit countries, a separate Harvard and University of Pennsylvan... [Full Article...]
However, 59 days from the start of her first Covid-19 episode and two days after beginning chemotherapy, the patient developed a fever, cough and shortness of breath, and again tested positive for coronavirus . "The demonstration that it is possible to be reinfected by SARS-CoV-2 may suggest that a COVID-19 vaccine may not be totally protective", he said. In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, re... [Full Article...]
Ongoing illness after infection with Covid-19, sometimes called "long Covid ", may not be one syndrome but possibly up to four causing a rollercoaster of symptoms affecting all parts of the body and mind, doctors say . Thus, previous exposure to SARS-CoV-2 might not guarantee total immunity in all cases. This data has implications for future COVID-19 vaccines. From a public health perspective,... [Full Article...]
According to The Virginia Information Technology Agency, a fiber cut caused the voter registration portal to experience an outage. The deadline to register to vote is now 11:59 p.m. Click to learn how to register to vote in Virginia . The Lawyers' Committee told VPM , Richmond's local NPR affiliate, that it plans to sue the state again to secure another voter registration deadline extensi... [Full Article...]