Shannon Bower is trying to catch her breath. It’s been a whirlwind 48 hours since the phone call. Her good friend, David Muise, had the offer of a lifetime. He has to work Friday evening, so he asked if Shannon would like his ticket for the Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road The Final Tour […]
Express News Service THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With Omicron set to infect more people in the weeks to come, the state is uniquely placed with having the maximum number of cases of Delta infection, which is at present the most dominant Covid variant. The state faces the simultaneous impact of the waves of Delta and Omicron as seen in […]
Omicron patients experienced severe headache, body pain, tiredness and mild fever unlike the common flu-like symptoms of Covid-19, said Dr Angelique Coetzee, one of the physicians who first flagged the highly mutated strain in South Africa. Dr Coetzee, who has physically seen over 100 Covid positive patients in South Africa infected with the new variant, […]
There were 35,670 suspected reinfections among 2.8 million individuals with positive tests last month. A preliminary study by South African scientists published Thursday suggests the Omicron variant is three times more likely to cause reinfections compared to the Delta or Beta strains. The findings, based on data collected by the country’s health system, provides the […]
(The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Jakarta ● Wed, November 10 2021 Consumer confidence and retail sales data point to a recovery from the slump caused by the Delta wave of COVID-19, as eased activity restrictions bode well for household spending ahead of the year-end holiday season. The consumer confidence index was recorded at 113.4 […]
It wasn’t a surprise that working as a junior doctor in a Melbourne hospital emergency department during a pandemic comes with challenges. Covid-19 will be one of the biggest challenges of our generation, but despite pleas to politicians and the public to do everything they can to help us get through the pandemic safely, each […]
The current U.S. wave of COVID-19 deaths does not yet appear to have peaked even though cases and hospitalizations may have, and the CDC’s deaths-by-age data lag the headline numbers by several weeks. This makes it much too early to say how dangerous this latest wave has been for different age groups relative to other […]