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Gov’t also notes decreasing health care utization rate this month (Eagle News) – Philippine officials noted the continuing decrease in the health care utilization rate this month for COVID-19 cases. At the same time, they observed that those who are being intubated in intensive care units in hospitals are mostly unvaccinated people. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana noted this in his report to President Rodrigo Duterte in his latest “Talk to the People” this week. “Napag-alamang […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — More than 80 percent of Covid-19 patients who have to be intubated in Brazil have died since the start of the second wave of infections ravaging the country, according to researchers. The mortality rate since February 15 — 83.5 percent — is far higher than in countries such as Mexico, Britain, Germany or Italy, highlighting how the South American country’s hospitals are struggling to deal with a surge […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — A fire at a hospital in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria on Monday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and medical sources said. Seven other people were injured in the blaze, believed to be caused by a malfunctioning air conditioner in an area designated for isolating COVID-19 patients, the sources said. Firefighters stopped it spreading to other hospital buildings, and ambulances were dispatched to transfer patients to other medical facilities, the state-run […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health announced more patients recovering from COVID-19 on Wednesday, April 15, than virus-related deaths as coronavirus cases rose further to 5,453. The number of COVID-19 cases added in the past 24 hours were 230 which was lower than Tuesday’s 291 additional new cases. Patients who recovered also increased at 58, bringing the total patient recoveries to 353. The COVID-19 related fatalities added as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, April […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The coronavirus has killed another 186 people in France, the health minister said on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 860. Health Minister Olivier Veran said that 19,856 people had been registered as testing positive for the virus in France, with a total of 8,675 hospitalized of whom 2,082 people are in intensive care. Officials believe that the published number of those infected largely underestimates the real figure, […]
by Thomas Urbain / Catherine Triomphe Agence France Presse A man opened fire in a busy New York hospital on Friday afternoon, killing a female doctor and wounding six other people before turning his weapon on himself, according to officials. The shooter was himself a doctor and former employee of the hospital, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio and police chief James O’Neill, who ruled out a connection to terrorism. He entered the building in […]
