Third-grade students, teachers and logistics personnel at junior and senior high schools in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, are tested on campus for coronavirus before they resume classwork on Monday. Students will form lines, spacing themselves 1.5 metres apart, at school gates and provide basic information about their living situation before being tested. Testing for the students, teachers, logistics...
During the quarantined days of the novel coronavirus epidemic, a young man from rural Henan province became an online celebrity by producing online videos of ordinary activities. He got the attention of more than 6 million people. Li Hua, 26, a native of Xiangcheng county, Henan province, recorded his family's daily life in short videos, mostly...
Trader He Ximing in the Chinese city of Wuhan says he has no idea how or where he caught the coronavirus or why repeated nucleic acid tests showed he didn't have it. He was not a coronavirus patient, doctors told him, even though he had been having difficulty breathing with what he described as smothering chest...
The circuit breaker may have gotten our spirits down and made us tense as our regular lives take a drastic change, but there have also been some small sparks of joy during this period. A thoughtful bus captain has brightened up his passengers' day with an infectious smile — on his face mask, that is. In a video clip shared on...
In his latest televised broadcast to the nation of Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced that the ‘circuit breaker’ measure that has been enforced since 7th April 2020 will be extended until 1st June, 2020 reports The Straits Times. Source: The Straits Times This is in light of the rising number of unlinked cases in Singapore,...
We’ve all been staying at home and looking out for any potential signs of liberation from the coronavirus. And now, we may possibly be on the way to a miracle. As according to the Independent, the University of Oxford will begin human trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine tomorrow. The Oxford team has announced that if the trials...
You may have heard, back in 2018, about a lonely dolphin left abandoned in an aquarium in Japan after the facility had closed due to the lack of visitors. Unfortunately, that dolphin has passed away. This news was shared according to the non-profit organization, the Dolphin Project, who have been trying to rescue Honey, the dolphin from Inubosaki Marine Park...
Paediatric services in the US could be overwhelmed by thousands of sick infants and young children - an overlooked group which has a higher risk of serious illness from Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, according to a new study. While children are at a lower risk of fatality from Covid-19 compared to the...
White House adviser Peter Navarro charged on Monday (April 20) that China may be withholding data about early coronavirus infections because it wants to win the commercial race to create a vaccine. The United States, which has been the country worst affected by coronavirus pandemic according to official statistics, has been repeatedly calling on Beijing to share...
Some 4.1 per cent of adults tested positive for coronavirus antibodies in a study of Los Angeles County residents, health officials said on Monday (April 21), suggesting the rate of infection may be 40 times higher than the number of confirmed cases. The serology tests, conducted by University of Southern California researchers on 863 people indicate...
