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08.01.2021 / 16:32

Nurse dies from covid-19 she caught in hospital just weeks after beating cancer

Covid she caught while working in hospital just weeks after she got the all clear from cancer. Kindhearted Valerie Careless was sent home to shield after developing a dry cough she thought was linked to an earlier pneumonia infection.

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Jeremy Clarkson says he feared death as he battled Covid-19 over Christmas

coronavirus four days before Christmas. He said: "I’m not going to lie — it was quite scary!"The Millionaire presenter said he woke up with a persistent dry cough and dripping with sweat.Jeremy took action after feeling sick and Googled his symptoms online.Then he later got tested for coronavirus which confirmed he had got the virus.His doctor told him if he didn't get better in a fortnight he would have to go to hospital.

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02.01.2021 / 22:53

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Family pay tribute to mum-of-eight who died days after Christmas with Covid-19

Covid-19. Gran-of-four and dearly loved mum Dianne Campbell passed away aged 54 on December 28 after she developed pneumonia and had a cardiac arrest, the Liverpool Echo reports.

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COVID-19: 1 year ago, medical bulletin went out on 'undiagnosed pneumonia'

LOS ANGELES - Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of when the global medical community received an alert about an unidentified cluster of a pneumonia-like illness that would later come to be known as COVID-19. A year later, the deadly virus has exploded into a global pandemic, infecting more than 82 million people around the world and upending the lives of nearly everyone on Earth.RELATED: The history-making moments that have happened so far in 2020 — and we’re only halfway throughLast year on Dec.

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Coronavirus: WHO director-general reflects one year after learning of pneumonia cases in Wuhan

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday it had been one year since the WHO learned of cases of pneumonia from a bulletin issued by health authorities in Wuhan, China.

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Chad Stuart of 1960s duo Chad & Jeremy dies aged 79

a post to the group’s Facebook page confirmed that Stuart passed away from pneumonia. His death was not coronavirus-related.“We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Chad Stuart, a father, a husband, a brother, a grandfather, a friend, a mentor, a teacher and an inspiration to many,” the post read.“The world has lost a legend today, but his voice will continue to touch our lives through his music”.Born David Stuart Chadwick, Chad Stuart first began recording music with Jeremy Clyde in the early 1960s.

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Dr. Michael Gardam on facing Canada’s health crises and his own

From the SARS outbreak to the current COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases physician Dr. Michael Gardam has been on the front lines of Canada’s health emergencies.

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Ice T says father-in-law is a reformed anti-masker after COVID left him “close to death”

Ice T has stressed the importance of wearing face coverings, revealing that his father-in-law was an anti-masker before being admitted to ICU with COVID-19.Taking to Twitter on Sunday (November 29), the Los Angeles rapper shared an image of his wife Nicole ‘Coco Marie’ Austin’s dad in hospital with the virus.“My father-in-law ‘Coco’s dad’ was a serious ‘No Masker’ COVID hit him,” he wrote, explaining that he spent 40 days in intensive care after developing pneumonia in both lungs.“Now he’s on Oxygen indefinitely. Ohhh he’s a Believer now,” he added before signing off with the hashtag #COVIDisNotAGame.

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Ice-T slams father-in-law who refused to wear a mask and nearly died from Covid

Ice-T has slammed his father-in-law for refusing to wear a face mask as he later nearly died from coronavirus.

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Kelsey Stratford says sister, 8, 'not giving up' as she fights Covid in the ICU

Kelsey Stratford has issued an update on her little sister Kennedy, amid the child's battle with coronavirus.

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South African great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi succumbs to covid-19

JOHANNESBURG : Satish Dhupelia, the South African great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, succumbed to COVID-19 complications here on Sunday, three days after his 66th birthday, a family member said.Dhupelia’s sister Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie confirmed that her brother had died of COVID-19 related complications after he contracted the disease in hospital where he had been under treatment for a month due to pneumonia."My beloved brother has passed on after a month of illness with pneumonia, a superbug contracted in hospital and then COVID-19 also contracted while he was being treated.He suffered a major cardiac arrest this evening," Uma said in a social media post.Besides Uma, Dhupelia leaves back another sister, Kirti Menon, who lives in

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Treating pneumonia at the community level can save infant lives in Malawi

As a health surveillance assistant, Chrissy Taula knows her small community of Mngwere, Dedza district, Malawi well. For the past 12 years, she has immunized children against vaccine-preventable diseases, advised families on exclusive breastfeeding and infant nutrition, educated families about family planning methods, and measured children to ensure their growth is on track.

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A nursing home worker cared for a resident with COVID-19. Then she got it herself

The same theme continued in a phone call that evening. The director of care said he was “very concerned” that the rules on PPE use were “not sustainable to the facility.”The home was “really short of masks and gowns,” according to the call notes.That sense of urgency was not apparent in the email sent to families that night.“I’m feeling a little more upbeat today,” the home’s management wrote, “and it’s helpful that we received negative test results for one employee and 4 more residents!”Twelve staff now had COVID-19.Gittens stayed in her room at home after getting her positive test result.

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Postmortem lungs of COVID-19 patients show massive damage

A study of the lungs of 41 people who died from COVID-19 in Italy has revealed extensive damage, persistent distortion of the normal organ structure, scarring of respiratory tissue, and massive blood clotting of the arteries and veins, which may help explain why it takes some people—so-called "long haulers"—months to recover from fatigue and shortness of breath.

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Florida Blue, Walgreens offers free drive-up flu shots

WINTER PARK, Fla. – Florida Blue and Walgreens are operating free flu shot clinics Wednesday in Winter Park and Winter Haven.The vaccines are available to anyone age 3 or older no matter their health insurance coverage or lack thereof.

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Nigeria puts curfew in Lagos against anti-police protests

LAGOS – As violent incidents have grown from Nigeria's widespread protests against police brutality, a 24-hour curfew has been imposed in Lagos, the country's largest city. The announcement of the curfew in Lagos, a sprawling city of some 14 million, came Tuesday after a police station was burned down in the city and two people were shot dead by police.Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said the curfew will cover the entire city and surrounding area.

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Nigeria's anti-police protesters storm prison, free inmates

LAGOS – Nigeria's protests against police brutality turned violent Monday when a crowd stormed a prison and freed some 200 inmates in Benin in southern Nigeria. Some prisoners jumped from a high fence of the institution while others were seen running away on the street, according to videos from the scene.

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19.10.2020 / 13:57

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Bolton MP Yasmin Qureshi hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus

Bolton South East MP has confirmed she is currently at Royal Bolton Hospital after testing positive for the virus two weeks ago. Mrs Qureshi said she started self-isolating with her family and continued to work from home until her condition worsened not long after her positive result.She was admitted to hospital on Saturday (October 17) with pneumonia where she is currently recovering. In a written statement, the Bolton MP said: “Two weeks ago, I began to feel unwell. I then tested positive for COVID-19, so my family and I immediately self-isolated at home.

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Treat coronavirus early to save patients’ lives, SARS veteran urges

Covid-19 patients: keeping them from entering in the first place.After sobering experiences 17 years ago with the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, Yuen Kwok-Yung is advocating early, aggressive hospitalization and treatment to minimize ravaging disease and death. Hong Kong’s 2% Covid-19 fatality rate as of Friday, well below the global average, lends weight to the approach.Most therapies for SARS-CoV-2 are authorized for use in severely ill patients, in some cases backed by research that’s still in question.

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Protests against Nigeria's police kill 10, charges Amnesty

LAGOS – Protests against Nigeria's police continued to rock the country for the eighth straight day Thursday as demonstrators marched through the streets of major cities, blocking traffic and disrupting business.At least 10 people have been killed and hundreds injured, according to Amnesty International, which accuses the police of using excessive force against the protesters.Youthful demonstrators are leading the nationwide protests demanding an end to police brutality including extrajudicial killings, and extortion. The protests have erupted across Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with more than 196 million people.

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There's a chance of a Covid vaccine but it cannot be taken for granted: UK PM

Boris Johnson said on Monday there were some hopeful signs that a vaccine would be secured for COVID-19, but he warned that the country must be realistic because it could not be taken for granted."There are some very hopeful signs not least from the Oxford AstraZeneca trials that are being conducted but as (the lawmaker asking the question) knows SARS took place 18 years ago, we still don't have a vaccine for SARS," he told parliament, reported Reuters."I don't wish to depress him but we must be realistic about this, there is a good chance of a vaccine but it cannot be taken for granted," the UK PM said.Moreover, Johnson imposed a three-tiered system of further restrictions on parts of England including shutting pubs as the COVID-19

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The anxiety and nostalgia of literary festivals in times of covid

Few literary festivals anywhere were as ill-fated as Hong Kong’s in 2003. It got underway just as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was migrating from southern China to Hong Kong.

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Is your mother tongue more prone to covid-19?

researcher Sakae Inouye, who had correlated the spread of the original SARS virus with the language spoken by people who were infected. A total of 8,000 cases were recorded in 26 countries during the SARS outbreak.

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Aurobindo Pharma says covid vaccine development going on as per plans

covid vaccine development is going on according to plans. Aurobindo Pharma Limited is developing a vaccine for SARS COV-2 (COVID-19) through its wholly owned US subsidiary Auro Vaccines.

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Can you catch COVID-19 from your neighbor’s toilet?

Jocelyn KaiserScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Coronaviruses wafting through a Chinese apartment building’s plumbing may have infected some residents, according to a new study, raising fears of yet another way that COVID-19 could spread.

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J&J vaccine candidate prevents severe COVID-19 in hamsters: Study

COVID-19 vaccine candidate, co-developed by the American multinational company Johnson and Johnson, raises neutralising antibodies that robustly protect hamsters against severe infection with the novel coronavirus, according to a study.The research, published in the journal Nature Medicine, demonstrated that the vaccine elicited robust immune response in Syrian golden hamsters, and prevented severe clinical disease including weight loss, pneumonia, and death.The vaccine, co-developed by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Johnson & Johnson (J&J), uses a common cold virus, called adenovirus serotype 26 (Ad26), to deliver the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into host cells, where it stimulates the body to raise immune responses against the

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Neymar & Two Of His Teammates Reportedly Test Positive for Coronavirus

Neymar has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus.

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Studies, WHO back steroid use in very ill COVID-19 patients

JAMA today published the results of three randomized controlled trials spanning 12 countries, a prospective meta-analysis, and a commentary, all but one—which had inconclusive results—supporting the use of systemic corticosteroids in critically ill COVID-19 patients, regardless of age, sex, duration of symptoms before treatment, or the need for mechanical ventilation.

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Three Paris Saint-Germain players test positive for Covid-19 club confirms

Paris St-Germain have confirmed that three of their first-team players have tested positive for Covid-19.The French club suffered defeat against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final last month, with Kingsley Coman netting the only goal of the showpiece out in Portugal.Thomas Tuchel and co must now regroup ahead of the new Ligue 1 season, nevertheless, which they will get underway against Lens on September 10.However, Tuchel’s preparations for the new campaign have been dealt a major setback after three of his players tested positive for coronavirus.The French club posted on Twitter: Three players from @PSG_inside are confirmed positive by the Sars CoV2 test and are subject to the appropriate health protocol."All players and staff

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Ian Royce dead: Britain's Got Talent and X Factor star dies after health battle

Britain's Got Talent and X Factor star Ian Royce has died aged 51 following a health battle, with the tragic news announced on his Twitter account on Tuesday evening.A statement was shared on his verified Twitter account with his 68,100 followers which read: "It is with our greatest regret that we have to tell you all that Ian has passed away today from severe pneumonia and multiple organ failure."He was in no pain and was surrounded by friends and family."He put up a good fight but is in a better place now. Roxanne."The tweet was immediately inundated with well wishes to Ian's family from fans, friends and former colleagues.One said: "Incredibly shocking and sad news.

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India’s first female cardiologist Dr S Padmavati dies at 103 of COVID-19

NEW DELHI : Noted cardiologist Dr S Padmavati has died at 103 due to COVID-19, the National Heart Institute said on Sunday.She was undergoing treatment at NHI for past 11 days, doctors said."Dr S Padmavati, an eminent cardiologist, rather the first female cardiologist of the India, popularly known as 'God Mother of Cardiology' passed away on August 29 due to COVID-19 infection," the NHI said in a statement.Founder of NHI, she was born in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1917, a year before the world was hit by the Spanish Flu pandemic."She was admitted with COVID-19 and had breathing difficulty and fever. She developed pneumonia in both lungs and needed ventilator support.

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How to Weigh Evacuation Options with Both Wildfires and COVID at Your Door

Kaiser Health News (August 28)How to Weigh Evacuation Options with Both Wildfires and COVID at Your DoorAs the smoke thickened near her home in Santa Cruz, California, last week, Amanda Smith kept asking herself the same questions: Should we leave? And where would we go? The wildfire evacuation zone, at the time, ended a few blocks from her house. But she worried about what the air quality — which had reached the second-highest warning level, purple for “very unhealthy” — would do to her children’s lungs.

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Covid-19 can affect almost all organs, say experts at AIIMS

COVID-19.Dr Guleria said eight months into COVID-19, a lot has been learnt and accordingly strategies are being changed from time to time. From what we thought of as a viral pneumonia has a lot of other manifestations which are beyond the lungs, he said."As we have known more and more about COVID-19, we have realised it causes many extra pulmonary manifestations.

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Coronavirus most prevalent among those aged between 5 and17: Delhi sero survey

New Delhi: Minors aged between 5 and 17 are most exposed to the novel coronavirus in Delhi, according to a serological survey conducted in the city this month.Conducted between August 1 and August 7, the survey, second in the city, showed that 29.1 percent of the population in the national capital has now developed antibodies against SARS CoV-2.As many as 15,000 people from four age groups participated in the survey -- around 25 percent of them below 18, 50 percent between 18 and 50, and the rest aged above 50.A prevalence rate of 34.7 percent was found among the participants aged between 5 and 17, the survey results show.As many as 31.2 percent of the people aged above 50 have recovered from COVID-19, it shows.Among those in the 18-50 age

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Antibody that may protect against covid-19 identified

BOSTON : Scientists have identified a human antibody that they say may potentially prevent or limit SARS-CoV-2 infection that causes COVID-19 disease.The researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in the US discovered and characterised a cross-reactive human monoclonal antibody (MAB) to SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins which blocks ACE2 receptor binding on the mucosal tissue of the respiratory tract.The origins of this rapid and important discovery go back 16 years, when the researchers at UMMS developed an IgG monoclonal antibody that was effective against a similar virus, SARS, according to the study published in the journal Nature Communications.When SARS-CoV-2 was recognised and began to spread, the researchers

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New this week: Katy Perry's 'Smile' and 'Love Island' return

“Lingua Franca” follows an undocumented trans Filipina immigrant on a quest to find a way to stay in the U.S to continue working as a domestic caregiver. For all its timely buzzwords, writer-director-editor-star Isabel Sandoval’s third film (on Netflix Wednesday), is introspective and subtle and well worth a watch.

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In a first, anti-fibrotic drugs effective in Covid-19 patients: Army

Mumbai: For the first time in the country, anti-fibrotic drugs have been used to treat patients suffering from COVID-19-related lung fibrosis and breathlessness which has helped in the recovery of four such patients in Maharashtra's Pune, the Army has said."The researchers at the Pune-based Army Institute of Cardiothoracic Sciences (AICTS) have found this therapy very effective in this subset of COVID-19 patients and they were safely tolerated as well.

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12.08.2020 / 12:23

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Selva raises $3m to develop novel antiviral against Covid-19

Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.California-based Selva Therapeutics has closed a Series A round with $3m raised. The funding for the round came from private investors, including Board of Directors member Kenneth Kelley; other participants of the round were not disclosed.

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11.08.2020 / 10:35

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GigaGen develops new class of drugs to treat Covid-19

Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.US-based biotechnology company GigaGen has developed a new class of drugs, recombinant hyperimmunes, to potentially treat patients with Covid-19. Hospitals across the country are using convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19.

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State Rep. Randy Fine set to leave hospital after COVID-19 diagnosis

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Rep. Randy Fine (R-Palm Bay) sounds like himself again two weeks after he says he first tested positive for COVID-19.After days of fever and coughing, Fine went to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne for an X-ray and a blood test.Fine was expecting to hear he had pneumonia, but he says the doctors told him his condition was so severe that at 46 years old he was at risk of dying.Fine said about 30% of his lungs are covered with damage from COVID-19."It's not getting worse, but it's going to take a while to get better.

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‘Relief was overwhelming,’ Seminole schools accommodate 93% of high-risk teachers

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Seminole High School English literature teacher Judith Casale spent Wednesday morning training to learn the curriculum for Seminole Virtual School, applying for the option to teach virtually knowing she is high-risk to contract coronavirus.“I actually don’t have full lung capacity at my base, and that’s at my healthiest due to permanent lung damage so that puts me at a higher risk,” Casale said. “The reason I lost 30% of my lung capacity is because I nearly died from pneumonia, I had double pneumonia at 18.” She says on a good day she uses her inhaler at least once.

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Medical Examiner responds to questions about Florida’s coronavirus death numbers

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Medical Examiner for Orange and Osceola counties stands by the more than 300 reviews his team has made on coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.“These cases are all natural cases for the most part,” said Dr. Joshua Stefany.Stefany said in order for a death to be classified as a coronavirus-related death, the person who died needed to test positive for COVID-19, they needed to have a CT scan that showed inflammation in the lungs and chest and they needed to exhibit some symptoms.“Obviously, you have to be COVID positive.

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Corrie legend Sherrie Hewson thinks her brother had Covid-19 when he died of a brain tumour but didn’t want to ‘fuss’

SHERRIE Hewson has revealed she thinks her brother had coronavirus when he died of an incurable brain tumour earlier this year. Talking to Dan Wootton on his talkRADIO Drivetime show, Sherrie revealed she is still "broken" after her brother's death in April.

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Ice-T Reveals Family’s Close Call With COVID-19

Ice-T has shared a stark warning about the realities of contracting COVID-19 after the virus put one of the rapper’s family members “on his back.”

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Tocilizumab trial did not benefit patients with severe covid-19: Roche

New Delhi: The Roche Group on Wednesday said that a clinical trial of its patented drug tocilizumab did not meet its primary and secondary endpoints, respectively, of improving clinical status of patients with covid-19 associated pneumonia and reducing patient mortality.The study, called COVACTA, is the first global, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III trial of the drug.

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Roche bid to retool arthritis drug for COVID-19 fails

ZURICH : Roche's attempt to retool its rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra/RoActemra to treat patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19-related pneumonia has failed in a late-stage trial, the Swiss company said on Wednesday.Roche launched the 330-patient trial in March as it joined other pharmaceutical companies seeking to re-purpose existing medicines to fight the pandemic.The "COVACTA trial did not meet its primary end-point of improved clinical status in patients with COVID-19 associated pneumonia, or the key secondary end-point of reduced patient mortality," Roche said.The news follows an Italian study that showed the drug failed to help patients with early-stage COVID-19 pneumonia.Roche shares were little changed."For COVID-19 patients

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Coronavirus 'covered up in Wuhan' as vital evidence from 'crime scene' destroyed

At the end of December last year, the seafood market in Wuhan, China, was bustling with traders and customers.

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Flu and pneumonia deaths now three times higher than coronavirus after steep drop

Nearly three times as many people in England and Wales are dying of flu and pneumonia than with coronavirus after a sharp drop in Covid-19 fatalities in recent weeks.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0