Month: April 2020
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
US COVID-19 deaths exceed 14,600, second-highest in world after Italy
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday (Apr 8) surpassed 14,600 COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest in the world after Italy. The pandemic has now claimed the lives of at least 14,695 people in the United States, which leads the world in the number of confirmed infections with 429,052, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
New York hospital sends some ‘borderline’ COVID-19 patients home with oxygen monitors
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NEW YORK: Some coronavirus patients who would have been admitted into the emergency department at a New York hospital are being sent home with an oxygen-monitoring device as the city’s medical system struggles to reserve resources for only the sickest people. The new program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is an examlifestyleple of how doctors are adapting
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
US nurses who can’t get tested fear they are spreading COVID-19
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NEW YORK: In New York City, an intensive care nurse treated patients for three days after she started displaying symptoms of COVID-19: but couldn’t get a test from her hospital. In Georgia, a nurse was denied a test after treating an infected patient who died. In Michigan, one of the few hospital systems conducting widespread
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
NY governor says social distancing working as more deaths reported
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NEW YORK: New York’s efforts at social distancing are working to get the coronavirus outbreak under control even as the state reported an additional 779 deaths, a record high for a second day, the Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday (Apr 8). Cuomo, who has emerged as a leading national voice on the outbreak, said
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
Southeast Asia’s renewable energy transition likely to take hit from COVID-19: Experts
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BANGKOK: Regional aspirations for a swift transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy are likely to be dashed by the economic and market crises triggered by the global COVID-19 outbreak, experts say. Southeast Asian nations already struggling to meet climate change targets will find those goals further from reach, with the unprecedented health emergency becoming the
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
Commentary: We are failing to manage the logistics of COVID-19 deaths
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BATH: We need to talk about dead bodies. Specifically the dead bodies being produced by COVID-19. This is different from saying we need to talk about death and dying (which we also need to do). I mean instead that we should focus our minds on what the human corpse means in this new pandemic reality.
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
Commentary: In Singapore, laws are necessary for trickle-down policies to work
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SINGAPORE: At one level, the unprecedented three-in-one Unity, Resilience, and Solidarity Budgets demonstrate the resolve of Singapore to ensure businesses and households are helped amid the public health concerns and the economic fallout of the Covid-19 global pandemic. But fiscal resolve alone is not enough. Everyone must play his part. If it’s every person for
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
Major Indian cities make mask-wearing compulsory amid virus fears
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NEW DELHI: Hundreds of millions of people in India, including in its two largest cities, were ordered on Wednesday (Apr 8) to wear face masks or coverings amid a nationwide lockdown to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Residents in the capital New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai, which have a combined population of
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
France to extend lockdown as coronavirus death toll close to 11,000
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PARIS: France reported some positive coronavirus-linked data on Wednesday (Apr 8), with the increase of hospital death fatalities slowing again, but the presidential palace said nonetheless the national lockdown aimed at containing the disease would be extended. The lockdown, that took effect on Mar 17 and has already been extended once, will now go beyond Apr 15,
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
Coronavirus-stricken Australian liner to dock in Uruguay
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay: The virus-stricken Australian cruise ship Greg Mortimer will be allowed to dock in Montevideo and the passengers will be flown home, Uruguay’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday (Apr 8). The ship, with more than 100 infected people on board, is anchored some 24 kilometres offshore and will be allowed to dock on Friday.
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
WHO urges coronavirus unity after Trump’s attack
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GENEVA: World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday (Apr 8) urged leaders to stop politicising the coronavirus pandemic following stinging criticism of the WHO from US President Donald Trump. The WHO director-general urged the US and China to join forces in fighting the disease rather than indulging in a blame game. Advertisement Advertisement Tedros
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
British PM Johnson ‘improving’ but remains in intensive care
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s condition was said to be “improving” on Wednesday (Apr 8), as he spent a third day in intensive care battling the coronavirus. The disease has struck at the heart of the British government, infected more than 60,000 people across nationwide and killed over 7,000, with another record daily toll reported
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
COVID-19: Sungei Tengah Lodge declared an isolation area under Infectious Diseases Act
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SINGAPORE: A fourth foreign worker dormitory has been gazetted as an isolation area, following a rise in COVID-19 cases. Sungei Tengah Lodge was declared an isolation area under the Infectious Diseases Act “for the purpose of preventing the spread or possible outbreak of the infectious disease COVID-19”, according to a notice by the Ministry of
Commentary: India’s handling of COVID-19 a man-made tragedy
NEW DELHI: “India is walking home,” declared the headline in The Indian Express as newspapers and television screens filled with images of millions of migrant workers, clutching their meagre belongings, trekking along India’s deserted highways to return to their homes, hundreds of kilometres away. Such images were last seen in India seven decades ago, when the