Tag Archives: Virus

Victoria edges closer to virus ‘roadmap’

Victoria is inching closer to a much-anticipated “roadmap” out of lockdown despite an uptick in new COVID-19 cases creating a potential speedbump. Premier Daniel Andrews will announce separate pathways for how and when Melbourne and regional Victoria will come out of respective stage four and three lockdowns on Sunday. There is no confirmation yet that… Read More »

Asia Today: Virus surge makes S. Korean lockdown more likely

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea reported 441 new cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, its highest single-day total in months, making lockdown-like restrictions look inevitable as transmissions slip out of control. The country has reported triple-digit daily jumps on each of the past 14 days, prompting health experts to warn that hospitals could run… Read More »

Cuomo rips into CDC as Trump’s political tool, says New York won’t follow new virus guidance

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a COVID-19 briefing in New York City. David Dee Delgado | Getty Images New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state won’t follow new federal guidance on coronavirus testing and urged others to do the same after CDC quietly revised its recommendations to downplay the importance of testing people without… Read More »

Australia passes grim virus death toll

More than 5.5 million COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Australia but the country’s top nurse has said those high testing rates need to continue as 17 new deaths in Victoria take the death toll past 500. 502 people have now died from COVID-19 in Australia since the nightmare coronavirus pandemic began. The majority of… Read More »

Florida, nearing 600,000 virus cases, records youngest COVID death in six-year-old girl

Health News A health care worker works at a COVID-19 testing site sponsored by Community Heath of South Florida at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Clinica Campesina Health Center, during the coronavirus pandemic, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) The state of Florida has recorded its youngest death connected to a… Read More »