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(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police is conducting a case build-up against those behind the information The Medical City had been raided for its personal protective equipment. In a statement, PNP Chief Archie Gamboa said the fake information initially circulated in a private chat group called “Chevening Alumni-Ph.” “Fake news is a crime that we must not allow to affect our lives, especially not at this moment or any other time,” he said. He said “in […]
(Eagle News) — The Medical City has denied social media reports it had been raided for its personal protective equipment. “There are news circulating that a raid of PPEs occurred in our premises on the evening of April 1. We deny this and encourage everyone to be careful in spreading unverified information,” the hospital said in an advisory posted on its Facebook page. The hospital made the denial after supposed text messages said the raid […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The coronavirus death toll in Spain surged to 4,089 after 655 people died within 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday. It was a 19 percent increase in figures released Wednesday by the authorities in Spain, which has the world’s second-highest death toll from the disease after Italy. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose to 56,188, the ministry said. Despite a national lockdown imposed on March 14, which […]
by Patrick GALEY PARIS, France (AFP) — The lockdown in the Chinese outbreak city of Wuhan brought the COVID-19 epidemic crashing to a halt, giving health systems crucial breathing room to deal with serious cases, new research showed Thursday. Chinese authorities ordered schools, universities and businesses shut following a cluster of COVID-19 cases in the transport hub in January, confining millions of people to their homes in a bid to contain the outbreak. The measures […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Greece on Monday put out a call for healthy volunteers to help combat the spread of the coronavirus, a government official said. There are 17 recorded deaths and 624 officially announced infections from the coronavirus in Greece, which has a population of 11 million. “The volunteer program is addressed to whoever can offer services, such as doctors, medical staff, psychologists, medical students, and retired health scientists,” acting government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York is to get a 1,000-room hospital ship that will dock in the city’s harbor to fight coronavirus, state Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. Cuomo said US President Donald Trump would dispatch the USNS Comfort to America’s financial capital immediately. “It’s an extraordinary step. It’s literally a floating hospital, which will add capacity,” Cuomo told reporters. “It has about a 1,000 rooms on it. It has operating rooms.” […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The death toll from the collapse of a coronavirus quarantine hotel in east China rose to 26 on Wednesday, with three more people feared still trapped in the rubble, according to state media. Dozens of people were pulled alive from the wreckage of the six-storey Xinjian hotel in the coastal city of Quanzhou but 26 others were either found dead in the ruins or have since died of their injuries, the […]
by Noel CELIS SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — In a sprawling medical compound an hour’s drive from downtown Shanghai, doctors are employing a patchwork of coronavirus treatments in a race to save victims of an epidemic for which there is still no established cure. The Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center is the designated facility for coronavirus cases in China’s biggest city, which was previously used to treat victims of the 2002-03 SARS epidemic (Severe Acute Respiratory […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A hospital director at the epicenter of China’s virus epidemic died Tuesday, state media said, the latest medical worker to fall victim to the coronavirus which has spread across the country. The COVID-19 virus, which is believed to have originated in Wuhan late last year, has spread to more than 72,000 people and killed 1,900 in China. Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, died Tuesday morning after “all-out […]
by Eva Xiao and Ludovic Ehret BEIJING, China (AFP) — Doctors on the frontline of China’s new coronavirus epidemic are facing a daunting task: treat an ever-growing number of infected patients and risk getting infected themselves due to a drastic shortage of masks and other protective equipment. Tired and understaffed, medical workers have had to deal with thousands of new cases per week in Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of the outbreak that first […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Coronavirus patients arrived Tuesday at a Chinese field hospital built from scratch in under two weeks at the frontline of the outbreak, state media said, following a round-the-clock construction marathon that became a national social media sensation. The 1,000-bed facility was built to relieve hospitals swamped with patients in Wuhan, the city in Hubei province at the epicentre of the national health emergency that has killed more in China […]
(Eagle News)–The Medical City has denied it had persons under investigation for the novel coronavirus. The Pasig-based hospital issued the statement following online reports a patient with the virus had been confined there. “We need to exercise caution when sharing unvalidated statements as these will only cause unnecessary anxiety,” the hospital said. It added that it “exercises the highest standards of infection control and hospital protocols in dealing with patients suspected of being infected with […]
