Apr 09, 2020

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sailor from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) in Guam after tes...

Apr 09, 2020

The following was originally posted by Jasmine Marcelin, MD, to the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases blog.   As our institution, state, country,...

Apr 09, 2020

ABUJA (Reuters) - Some African countries could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks and testing should be urgently increased in the region, World Health Organization offi...

Apr 09, 2020

DocClocker, an app created by physicians for physicians, enables medical facilities to provide patients with real-time wait time reporting to decrease sick patient exposure.   Tampa, Fl...

Apr 09, 2020

By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan has evoked Turkey's war of independence in calls for unity against the coronavirus, but opposition parties sa...

Apr 09, 2020

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish borders will be closed until May 3 and the government will extend a lockdown for schools and businesses, Poland's Prime Minister said on Thursday, meaning rest...

Apr 09, 2020

By Se Young Lee and Brenda Goh BEIJING/WUHAN, China (Reuters) - China took new measures on Wednesday to try to prevent asymptomatic "silent carriers" of the new coronaviru...

Apr 09, 2020

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Netherlands rose by 1,213 on Thursday to 21,762, health authorities said, with 148 new deaths. The c...

Apr 09, 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - The GAVI vaccine alliance will disburse $29 million to help health systems in 13 lower-income countries fight COVID-19, it said on Thursday, part of a $200 million pr...

Apr 09, 2020

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's government on Thursday confirmed it was extending by a month most of the restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. ...

Apr 09, 2020

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A 107-year old Dutch woman has recovered from the coronavirus, probably becoming the oldest survivor of the pandemic in the world. Cornelia Ras fell ...

Apr 09, 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will allocate more resources to prevent the spread of the coronavirus from its land borders, as the country still faces risks of a comeback after new clusters ...

Apr 09, 2020

By Brenda Goh WUHAN, China (Reuters) - Chinese doctors at the primary hospital treating severe coronavirus patients in the city of Wuhan said they have been using the HIV ...

Apr 09, 2020

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand reported 54 new coronavirus cases and 2 more deaths on Thursday, including a 74-year-old French national. An 82-year-old Thai man also died, s...

Apr 09, 2020

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported its biggest daily jump in coronavirus deaths on Thursday, bringing the total confirmed number to 280 in the world's fourth most populous country, ...

Apr 09, 2020

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached 756, the country's public health agency said on Thursday, rising from 705 people on Wednesday. ...

Apr 09, 2020

By Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) - The coronavirus epidemic has forced a Swiss couple to rethink their plans for the birth of their first child. Arnaud J...

Apr 09, 2020

By Emma Farge LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Swiss emergency rooms and hospitals are quieter than usual despite an influx of COVID-19 patients, a worrying sign that som...

Apr 09, 2020

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has found more than 100 coronavirus infections in an old people's home in Budapest, Surgeon General Cecilia Muller told a news briefing on Thursday. ...

Apr 09, 2020

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno on Wednesday called for an investigation into how local authorities handled the bodies of coronavirus victims in Guayaquil, the epice...