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South Korea reports recovered coronavirus patients testing positive again

Apr 10, 2020

By Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. ...

New York 'cautiously optimistic' with first daily drop in ICU COVID-19 patients

Apr 10, 2020

By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday that the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care units across the state dropped in t...

Tokyo seeks shop shutdowns, Kyoto warns tourists away as coronavirus threatens Japan economy

Apr 10, 2020

By Linda Sieg and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Metropolitan Tokyo asked some businesses to close and the ancient capital of Kyoto warned tourists to stay away as Japan ba...

War-ravaged Yemen confirms first coronavirus case, braces for more

Apr 10, 2020

By Mohammed Ghobari ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen reported its first coronavirus case on Friday as aid groups braced for an outbreak in a country where war has shattered health s...

Spain sees slowing coronavirus toll, holds virtual Easter parades

Apr 10, 2020

By Inti Landauro and Graham Keeley BARCELONA (Reuters) - The coronavirus death toll curve in Spain flattened further on Friday as the government prepared to start easing o...

India set to ship drug sought by Trump for coronavirus

Apr 10, 2020

By Zeba Siddiqui and Sumit Khanna NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - India is set to begin shipping the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to the United States where President D...

Coronavirus drug hopefuls are cheap to make but may be in short supply

Apr 10, 2020

By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Drugs being re-purposed in hopes they will help against COVID-19 cost little to make but may prove challenging to produce in quantities n...

Young doctors brave overwhelming coronavirus crisis

Apr 10, 2020

By Inti Landauro (Reuters) - For young doctors like 26-year-old Christian Vigil, battling on the frontline against the new coronavirus is a journey back in time to an era ...

China's Wuhan to keep testing residents as coronavirus lockdown eases

Apr 10, 2020

By Brenda Goh WUHAN, China (Reuters) - China's Wuhan city, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, is still testing residents regularly despite relaxing its tough two...

Swiss coronavirus death toll passes 800, positive tests top 24,000

Apr 10, 2020

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss death toll from coronavirus has reached 805, the country's public health ministry said on Friday, rising from 756 people on Thursday. The numb...

Less than 1% of Austria's population infected with coronavirus, study finds

Apr 10, 2020

VIENNA (Reuters) - Less than 1% of Austria's population is infected with the coronavirus, a study published on Friday found, based on testing a representative sample of more than 1,500 ...

Indonesian doctor's death exposes heartbreaking risks of coronavirus battle

Apr 10, 2020

By Kate Lamb and Wahyuwidi Cinthya (Reuters) - When Indonesian doctor Ratih Purwarini was buried at dusk in a Jakarta cemetery, only her son Firos saw her plastic-wrapped ...

Tired and sick, Spanish nurse ponders coronavirus missteps

Apr 10, 2020

By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) - Auxiliary nurse Chelo Megia soldiered on through the toughest weeks of the coronavirus epidemic as it decimated elderly residents of ...

'You can't relax': Vigilance urged as New York sees signs of coronavirus progress

Apr 09, 2020

By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans must resist the impulse to ease social-separation measures at the first glimpse of progress now being seen in the coronavir...

What Does Recovery From COVID-19 Look Like? It Depends. A Pulmonologist Explains.

Apr 09, 2020

Reports of recovery from serious illness caused by the coronavirus have been trickling in from around the world.Physicians are swapping anecdotes on social media: a 38-year-old man who went home after...

Special Considerations: A Patient’s Perspective on Covid-19— Deb’s Journey

Apr 09, 2020

In this exclusive video, medical writer Deb Liao, PharmD, shares her experience as a Covid-19 patient and offers some thoughts about how she found this virus caused her more anxiety than her experienc...

Covid-19: Physicians Groups Demand Data on Race, Ethnicity

Apr 09, 2020

That there is racial and ethnic disparity in care is not really news; however, these inequities are now blatantly evident during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seven physician organizations are demanding that...

Europe's coronavirus export bans raise concern over insulin supplies

Apr 09, 2020

By Francesco Guarascio and Matthias Blamont BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Several European countries have banned some exports of insulin in recent weeks, a move industry officials ...

Pfizer clinches coronavirus vaccine deal, sees potential in antiviral treatment

Apr 09, 2020

By Carl O'Donnell NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc <PFE.N> said on Thursday that early data has helped it identify a drug candidate with the potential...

Iran's leader says create sense of Ramadan at home as coronavirus toll rises

Apr 09, 2020

(Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader called on Iranians to create the sense of Ramadan in their homes, since public gatherings are banned as the country tries to contain one of the world's...

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