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Tamil Nadu Agriculture Minister R Doraikkannu dies due to COVID-19
Nora Meyers Sackett, a Governor's Office spokeswoman, announced at least 592 additional COVID-19 cases statewide. The state said there were 257,367 people tested from Sunday to Friday with 14,938 positive cases - for a 5.8% positivity rate. [Full Article...]
Philippines reports 1,803 new coronavirus cases, 36 more deaths
The 29th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), presented findings that categorised the people who are experiencing issues even after getting cleared of the virus to be "long haulers". [Full Article...]
Regeneron COVID-19 drug trial halted in sickest patients
The study relied on data from UK Biobank, a long-term study of more than 500,000 participants investigating the respective contributions of genetic predisposition and environmental exposure to the development of the disease. The study also found that infected men were more deficient in vitamin D levels than the female counterparts. As a conclusion, the team of researchers hopes their findings ... [Full Article...]
Johnson set to impose month-long lockdown in England
The British premier will set out the new measures, which include extending a financial support scheme to help businesses pay furloughed employees for an additional month to December, to parliament on Monday. Johnson was addressing the nation hours after his government, which has faced intense criticism since the start of the pandemic, published data showing that virus cases in the United Kingdom s... [Full Article...]
Alberta sets new daily record with 622 COVID-19 cases
Of Friday's new cases, 218 are in the Edmonton Zone. Given a situation where the province shut down on November 15, Gasperowicz said, the province would see 3,000 daily new cases before bending the curve. "We are monitoring the situation closely and diligently, and continue to apply our infection prevention and control measures", the CSC wrote in a statement. [Full Article...]
More than one million lab-confirmed coronavirus cases recorded in UK
A new analysis of COVID "long haulers" has found that they may have skin symptoms for months-including the unusual phenomenon "COVID toes", which one man had for nearly six months. "I think it raises a lot of questions about what sort of inflammation is going on - is there inflammation elsewhere in the body?" The cocktail, which has been erroneously called "Regeneron", is now in a series of test... [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: Five deaths and 416 new cases of Covid-19
It says further that medical health officers "may add further prohibitions, or impose more restrictive limitations or conditions, with respect to gatherings and events" in their respective geographic areas. The outbreaks at Fort Langley Seniors Community, The Village and Sunset Manor and Good Samaritan Victoria Heights have been declared over. The Department of Health confirmed that there were a... [Full Article...]
New COVID-19 cases top 1,000 for Washington state on Friday
Out of the new cases, 174 - or 6.9% - are from Allegheny County. The Minnesota Department of Health is confirming 3,165 new COVID-19 cases Friday, a record one-day high. Cases on the DeKalb County website list residents that only live within the county lines for a municipality, while the state website lists everyone within a certain ZIP code. [Full Article...]