Tag Archives: Health

• Global coronavirus cases surpass one million with more than 50,000 deaths 2 April 2020 | Chris Lefkow with AFP bureaux This post has no comments yet

  Confirmed coronavirus cases around the world topped one million on Thursday and the number of deaths soared past 50,000 as Europe reeled from the pandemic and the United States reported record numbers of people out of work. ...

• “Some of us will die”: India’s homeless stranded by coronavirus lockdown 1 April 2020 | Zeba Siddiqui and Sunil Kataria This post has no comments yet

  In a densely packed neighbourhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and peas from a vat in the back of a van. ...

• Global lockdown tightens as virus deaths mount 30 March 2020 | Mariette Le Roux with Peter Hutchison in New York This post has 3 comments

  Harsh lockdowns aimed at halting the march of the coronavirus pandemic extended worldwide Monday as the death toll soared past 37,600 amid new waves of US outbreaks. ...

• Modi seeks ‘forgiveness’ from India’s poor over coronavirus lockdown 29 March 2020 | Alexandra Ulmer and Swati Bhat This post has 3 comments

  Indian PM Narendra Modi asked the nation’s poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts about a lack of adequate planning ahead of the decision. ...

• Coronavirus could take up to 200,000 US lives says health expert Fauci | Brian Knowlton This post has no comments yet

  Senior US scientist Dr Anthony Fauci issued a cautious prediction Sunday that the novel coronavirus could claim as many as 200,000 lives in the US, as officials described increasingly desperate shortages in hard-pressed hospitals. ...

• US leads global coronavirus cases, count crosses 100,000 27 March 2020 | Christine Chan This post has 5 comments

  Confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States reached 100,040 on Friday, the highest number in the world, a Reuters tally showed. Italy is second with 86,498 cases and China is third with 81,340 confirmed cases. ...

• British PM Johnson tests positive for COVID-19 | Joe Jackson and David Harding This post has no comments yet

  The two men leading Britain's fight against the coronavirus -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Health Secretary Matt Hancock -- both announced Friday they had tested positive for COVID-19. ...

• Three billion under lockdown as UN warns virus threatens humanity 25 March 2020 | Philippe Rater with Diego Urdaneta in Madrid and AFP bureaus This post has 5 comments

  More than three billion people are living under lockdown measures to stem the spread of the killer coronavirus that the United Nations warned Wednesday is threatening all of humanity. ...

• What mindset to overcome carona fear? 16 March 2020 | NS Venkataraman This post has no comments yet

  In this difficult situation, the Hindu philosophy has an answer and shows the way, asking people to reconcile themselves to the pre-destined situation. ...

• China state media accuses US politicians of spreading ‘political virus’ 15 March 2020 This post has 2 comments

  Some United States politicians are using coronavirus as a weapon to smear China, the Xinhua official news agency said on Sunday, as a war of words escalated between the two countries over China’s handling of the epidemic. ...