MEDICINE & HEALTHWith this latest development on COVID-19, how prepared are we? (Photo : lobmaster on Flickr) When the news about the new coronavirus (COVID-19) first came out in the United States, American shoppers started hunting for hand sanitizers and face masks almost emptying the shelves of the nearby grocery stores and pharmacies.
The World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom announced early today that it has officially labeled the latest coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) as a pandemic.
Does everyone really know what the word "pandemic" means? (Photo : Alexia newsletter on Flickr) It's not ordinary and frequent that a respiratory illness becomes the main topic of conversations, discussions, and arguments in the United States.
With the widespread of coronavirus nowadays, and most places are being locked down, many people in the world including the Americans, wonder what will happen to their work if their office is located at the locked-down areas.
Fearing the possible more danger coronavirus can bring to the campus, Amherst College, and two other schools have decided to move all classes online beginning March 23.
Officials of the U.S. government say a million of promised tests to diagnose coronavirus infections are soon to be in the mail. However, the said promises still leave a lot of local and state laboratories without the capability of testing the virus, critical for controlling its spread across the nation.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the weekend declared a state of calamity as the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in New York increased to 89 including an Uber driver and two other patients whose positive tests remain unexplained.
In a preliminary study conducted by the researchers at Peking University's School of Life Sciences and Institute Pasteur of Shanghai said that the virus has evolved into two major lineages, known as "L" and "S" types.
The effect of coronavirus on China is so stark that it can be seen as a dramatic drop in air pollution from space. This information came from the U.S. and European satellites.
The World Health Organization still refuses to declare COVID-19 as pandemic despite its global spread soars by the hour. The reason may be with what will happen when we deploy the P-word.
Just weeks after recovering, a Japanese woman is tested positive yet again for COVID-19. (Photo : Reuters)A man wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus, walks past an advertising billboard of Tokyo Olympics 2020, near the Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Japan, February 27, 2020.