Reading Time: 2 minutes VICTORIA – Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer has confirmed three new cases of COVID-19 in B.C, for a total of 12 cases in British Columbia. All of these new cases reside in the Vancouver Coastal Health region and have recently returned from travel to Iran. Case 10 Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Senator Todd Young (R-IN) today sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging the Secretary to vigorously oppose China’s leadership in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), given China’s persistent violations of intellectual property protections, including Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although the patient has been allowed to leave, 46 people who had come in contact with her are still being monitored. GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was discharged today from a treatment centre in the north-eastern town of Beni. With no more confirmed cases, Read More…
Reading Time: 4 minutes A researcher works in a lab that is developing testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus on Feb. 28, in Nutley, New Jersey. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images) It has been nearly three months since the first cases of a new coronavirus pneumonia appeared in Wuhan, China, and it is now a global outbreak. And yet, despite nearly 90,000 infections Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The number of victims of the new coronavirus in China has increased to 2943; more than 47.2 thousand people have recovered. This is reported by the state Committee on the hygiene and health of the PRC. During the day, China recorded 31 deaths; almost 2.8 thousand people were discharged from hospitals. The total number of Read More…
