TOKYO — Tokyo has hit another six-month high in new coronavirus cases, one day before the Olympics. The 1,979 new cases Thursday are the highest since 2,044 were recorded on Jan. 15. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and the International Olympic Committee have been determined to hold the Olympics despite the pandemic. Suga placed Tokyo under… Read More »
More and more U.S. counties with low vaccination rates are starting see Covid cases climb, putting residents at risk for “unnecessary” infections, hospitalizations and potentially deaths as the delta variant tears through the country, according to U.S. health officials. “After several weeks of declining numbers of cases, followed by a long plateau, we are seeing… Read More »
Their study, published last Thursday in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, found a statistically significant increase in clinic and hospital visits by patients who reported respiratory illnesses as early as the week of December 22. The first known case of Covid-19 in the US was thought to be a patient in Washington who had… Read More »
A study conducted in Malawi has shown that near point-of-care technologies have the capacity to improve viral-load testing, increase the frequency and quality of clinical action and reduce the costs incurred by outpatients in HIV clinics. Near point-of-care assays allow HIV viral-load tests to be conducted within hours of sample collection at the same health… Read More »
Travel chiefs fear holiday booking ‘fiasco’ as Boris Johnson unveils traffic light system for foreign trips with countries rated on vaccination levels and Covid cases – as Europe faces a race against time to get infection rates down before summer season The Prime Minister will unveil a traffic light system that will see destinations rated… Read More »
Number of NHS staff happy with their pay fell in 2020 to 36.7% – with almost HALF of medics taking time off with work-related stress during the Covid pandemic, survey finds Stress was higher in NHS workers but fewer said they wanted to quit the NHS Health workers embroiled in a row with Government over… Read More »