Australia’s falling coronavirus infection rate has sparked calls for a loosening of lockdown rules, but experts warn restrictions must stay until after winter. South Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory all reported no new cases of coronavirus over the weekend. South Australia, with a population of 1.76 million remained at only 81 … Read more
Spain’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 19,478, with the government reporting 585 new fatalities in the last 24 hours. The number of new infections again rose more than the previous day, with 5,252 new positive tests. This is up from yesterday’s figure of 5,183, marking the third consecutive day of increases after beginning to … Read more
Germany has declared that its coronavirus crisis is ‘under control’ despite a recent uptick in the number of new cases. Health Minister Jens Spahn said a lockdown introduced on March 18 ‘was successful’ and that infection numbers have ‘sunk significantly’ since then. He spoke on Friday shortly after the Robert Koch Institute reported 3,380 new … Read more
Ending the US coronavirus lockdown too early could lead to an explosion of new coronavirus cases, according to a study modelling the spread of the virus. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a model showing the spread of the deadly virus using publicly available data from Wuhan, Italy, South Korea and the … Read more
Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK’s chief scientific adviser, said statistics are starting to show the ‘beginning of change’ and that Britain’s coronavirus crisis did not appear to be accelerating The UK’s top scientist today offered the public a glimmer of hope that the strict coronavirus shutdown is having an effect after official statistics revealed the … Read more
Billy McFarland, the convicted organizer of the failed Fyre Festival, has requested early prison release due to coronavirus concerns at his Ohio jail. He is pictured leaving Manhattan federal court in 2017, the year of his conviction Billy McFarland, the convicted organizer of the failed Fyre Festival, is making a bid to get out of … Read more
A pair of scientists believe that up to 270,000 residents of California have the novel coronavirus, 10 times more cases than have been reported. The researchers estimate that up to 4.8 percent of the total US population was infected with the virus by April 6 – 40 times the number of confirmed cases. They also … Read more
Professor Sung-Il Cho said if new infections dipped below 50 for a fortnight it would be possible to move to ‘gradual recovery’ Britain’s draconian coronavirus lockdown could be eased when fewer than 50 new cases are recorded each day, a top scientist has suggested. Professor Sung-Il Cho, from South Korea, said if new infections dipped … Read more
Spain‘s overnight death toll from the coronavirus rose to 567 on Tuesday, while the country reported its lowest increase in new cases since March 18. The country’s total death toll now stands at 18,056, passing the 18,000 mark, while confirmed cases of the infection rose by 3,045 to 172,541, the Health Ministry said in a … Read more
Coronavirus ‘harms the brain and nervous system of HALF of severely ill patients and a third of all cases’ — causing symptoms such as stumbling, slurred speech and seizures Neurologists studied 214 patients treated for coronavirus in Wuhan, China Of these people, 36.4 per cent were found to have brain and nerve symptoms Identifying these symptoms … Read more