COVID19 update: Russia has recorded more than 11 000 new coronavirus cases and a doctor in Poland says plasma from survivors of Covid-19 sped up the recovery of a new mother. coronavirus lockdown
Warsaw, Poland — A hospital director in southern Poland says that treatment with plasma from a COVID-19 survivor has led to a rapid improvement of a woman suffering from the disease and being in serious condition and on ventilator after emergency cesarean section.
Russia’s official caseload has thus surpassed that of Germany and France, becoming the 5th largest in the world. The actual number of cases is likely to be much higher as not everybody is getting tested and many people infected with the virus don’t show any symptoms. Until late April, Tajikistan was one of the few countries that hadn’t reported a single case of the new coronavirus. Tajik authorities have been denying that the nation is affected by the outbreak for weeks, attributing a surge of respiratory diseases to other infections and viruses. As of Thursday, the country’s health officials registered nearly 400 confirmed cases and eight deaths.
South Africa has the most virus cases with more than 7,800 but has been testing assertively with more than 10,000 tests carried out per day.People pass by wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus ride along a street in Beijing. Picture: Mark Schiefelbein/APBeijing — China is touting its assistance to countries struck by the coronavirus, saying it has provided direct government aid to 150 nations, including millions of testing kits.
China has in part promoted its assistance and role as a source of personal protective equipment as a way to deflect criticism that it delayed reporting information about the outbreak first detected in the central industrial city of Wuhan late last year. Beijing has angrily denied such accusations, saying it has been open and transparent throughout the crisis and that countries such as the U.S. squandered the opportunity China provided them to better prepare.
The updated appeal launched Thursday includes nine additional vulnerable countries: Benin, Djibouti, Liberia, Mozambique, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Togo and Zimbabwe. The country’s food and drug safety minister, Lee Eui-kyung, told reporters Thursday that a total of 70 countries had requested for mask shipments from South Korea.
People walk by ambulances parked outside NewYork–Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in New York during the coronavirus pandemic. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says most Covid-19 patients coming into New York hospitals are not working and not travelling daily and tend to be older than 50. Picture: Mark Lennihan/APNew York - Democratic members of the state’s Board of Elections filed an appeal Wednesday of a federal judge’s reinstatement of the New York presidential primary.
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus sit on a bench in front of a propaganda banner encouraging people to wear masks at a public park in Beijing. China's government declared the whole country now at low virus risk Thursday as its new cases fall to near zero and no new deaths have been reported from Covid-19 in more than three weeks.
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