The burdensome cost of treating COVID-19

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The burdensome cost of treating COVID-19

If the tidal wave of COVID-19 cases and deaths being reported on the nightly news in the last few weeks does not scare you, then the emotional, financial and physical costs associated with treating the virus just may. Add to that the recent...

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Kenya: 17 in Mandera Discharged After Testing Negative for COVID-19

Seventeen out of the 18 Covid-19 patients in Mandera County have been discharged from hospital after testing negative even as the county flattened its

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Can’t Breathe: Uganda Runs Out Of Oxygen For Covid-19 Patients – The Wilmington Journal

GULU, Uganda — An acute shortage of medical oxygen has hit Uganda, putting the lives of hundreds of Covid-19 patients in danger, as deaths from the disease spiked to new levels. David Nuwamanya, the Principal Hospital [...]

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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Govt to Engage 800,000 Volunteers to Sensitise Communities

The federal government is to engage 800,000 volunteers nationwide to sensitise Nigerians on the dangers and spread of COVID-19, the National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, said thursday in

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Drug shows promise in 1st largely minority COVID-19 study, company says

A drug company said Friday that a medicine it sells to tamp down inflammation has helped prevent the need for... View Article The post Drug shows promise in 1st largely minority COVID-19 study, company says appeared first on TheGrio.

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Namibia: State Hospitals Run Out of Oxygen

[Namibian] THE government is facing a critical shortage of lifesaving oxygen at state hospitals due to the collapse of the oxygen generating systems at health facilities countrywide.

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Health system lacks capacity to institutionalise all positive COVID-19 cases - CMO - Stabroek News

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Narine Singh has acknowledged that the home isolation system for COVID-19 patients is “not a fool proof system,” but says Guyana does not yet have the capacity to institutionalise all persons who test positive for the

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Kenya’s Covid-19 death toll rises to 132

Another two Covid-19 patients have died in Kenya as of Thursday afternoon, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 132, the Health ministry

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From GWI’s standpoint there is no water problem at Diamond Isolation Facility

The Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to respond to reports of “Repeated disruption of …water supply” at the Diamond Isolation Unit, as is being reported by the Stabroek News in a May 17 article entitled “COVID-19 patients fear poor conditions at Diamond Isolation Unit delaying recovery” and a May

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How to tell if you have COVID-19 or flu - African American News Today - EIN News

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Tunisia: Covidar Has Provided Early Care At Home for About 900 Covid-19 Patients Since Its Launch

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Covidar initiative, launched by a group of Tunisian doctors and pharmacists practicing in Tunisia and abroad last December, has provided free early care at home for about 900 COVID-19 patients, Sonia Driss Bellamine, manager and co-initiator of Covidar

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Nigeria: Coronavirus - Amid Rising Cases, Nigeria Considers Discharging Yet-to-Recover Patients

The Nigerian government has said it may consider discharging COVID-19 patients earlier than their required treatment and isolation period, even though they are still

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Uganda: Makerere COVID-19 Ventilators Pass Test

The locally-made low cost ventilator by Makerere University for giving breathing support to Covid-19 patients has successfully passed the engineering

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Covid-19: Gift of the Givers helps renovate Mitchells Plain Hospital for extra capacity | News24

A R5 million renovation at Mitchells Plain Hospital is under way to increase capacity for Covid-19 patients, thanks to the efforts of Gift of the Givers Foundation.

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Do not be selfish — Practice social distancing

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Trump is taking the latest in COVID-19 treatments

WITH 74-year-old US President Donald Trump and 50-year-old first lady Melania Trump testing positive for the novel coronavirus, what are the best proven treatments for them and other patients?We are both physician-scientists at the University of Virginia. We care for COVID-19 patients and conduct

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Tanzania: U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Summoned Over COVID-19 Statement

Dar es Salaam — The government of Tanzania through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 summoned the acting US Ambassador Dr Inmi Patterson for clarification over issues that the mission has in the recent past posted on its website and social media

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The Vaccines: Will Black People be at the end of the Line? - Los Angeles Sentinel

During this Covid-19 watch, it seems that there is a tremendous amount of excitement in the news as vaccines move toward federal approval and all the different states racing and running to create plans for who should get the first doses and how the vaccines will be distributed. State and federal

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Kenya: Govt Rolls Out Home Care Plan for COVID-19 Patients

The government Wednesday launched protocols for home-based isolation and care, anticipating to discharge asymptomatic Covid-19 positive

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Rwanda: Ngoma - All 4 Escapees From COVID-19 Centre Arrested

[New Times] Police in Ngoma District on Thursday, July 9, arrested all the four detainees who are among the Covid-19 patients who escaped from the treatment centre at ASPEK Secondary School in Kibungo Sector on Wednesday, July 8.

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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Nigeria May Use Schools, Hotels As Isolation Centres - Minister

The federal government will consider using schools and hotels as isolation centres for COVID-19 patients if the need arises, an official

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Cameroon: Govt Opens Schools Amid COVID-19 Spike

Speaking on Cameroon state media CRTV on Sunday, Cameroon prime minister Joseph Dion Ngute said president Paul Biya ordered schools that he closed last March 17 as part of measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus to reopen on June 1st because 3, 630 of the 6, 380 COVID-19 patients in the

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Tshwane hospital which only deals with Covid-19 patients has had over 600 admissions to date | News24

Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize, along with Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku, visited the hospital in Pretoria.

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Dr. Gathe, who serves as the co-director of the COVID-19 Dedicated Care Unit at the United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), said he got a call one day from Dr. Varon, and they began discussing patients they had recently seen that had been getting sick with this unusual new

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Over R1 million raised to pay medical bills for doctor currently in hospital with Covid-19 | News24

Dr Sindi van Zyl was admitted to hospital in February after having trouble breathing.

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S. Africa to begin Africa's first COVID-19 vaccine trial

As South Africa prepares to launch the continent’s first coronavirus vaccine trial, the Rainbow Nation has opened a new field hospital for people with COVID-19 in a de-commissioned Volkswagen

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Doctors may be better equipped to handle latest virus surge - Black News Channel

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The latest surge in U.S. coronavirus cases appears to be much larger than the two previous ones, and it is all but certain to get worse — a lot worse. But experts say there are also reasons to think the nation is better able to deal with the virus

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Kenya: COVID-19 - MoH Unveils Home-Based Plan for Positive Slum Dwellers

The Ministry of Health is working to identify institutions within communities in informal settlements that will act as areas where Covid-19 patients from the slums will be

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Covid-19: Kenya inches closer to 3,000 mark

Kenya has recorded 95 positive coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally of confirmed cases to

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Uganda: Lack of Hospital Denies Pader Oxygen Services

[Monitor] The absence of a hospital has denied Pader District the opportunity to receive medical oxygen needed for Covid-19 patients.

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Kenya to roll out home-based care for virus patients

The Kenyan government is developing an interim guidance for safe home care for Covid-19 patients and their contacts, the Health Ministry has

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