For a personal support worker at a nursing home in Norfolk County, Ontario, every day is a blur. There should be at least six PSWs on each floor she works, but on many days there are only three or four. “We are still understaffed… It means residents are not getting the care they deserve,” said the worker, who asked to […]
The last: The UK government has sought to ease pressures on the food supply in England by exempting some workers from quarantine rules. In an announcement Thursday night following growing pressure from retailers facing staff shortages and empty shelves, he outlined plans for daily COVID-19 testing of critical food industry workers that will effectively enable those who test negative continue […]
China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said on Thursday. Zeng Yixin, deputy minister of the National Health Commission, said he was “rather surprised” that the plan included further investigation into the theory that the virus may have leaked from a Chinese […]
Rising R-value for COVID-19 in Alberta coupled with stubborn and highest vaccine reluctance rate in the country are two signs that the province’s battle to fend off the pandemic still has hurdles to overcome, says expert in infectious diseases from Calgary. The province-wide R-value of Alberta – which represents the number of people infected by each infected person – rose […]
Canada’s demand for COVID-19 vaccines is slowly declining, experts say, and they warn that those who wait to see if cases increase before receiving their vaccines are wasting the time the body needs to develop sufficient immunity. Less than one percent of Canadians have been vaccinated per day over the past week, down from the record daily rate of 1.44 […]
The last: COVID-19 infections in Tokyo hit a six-month high on Wednesday, with the Olympic host city registering 1,832 new cases just two days before the Games open. Tokyo is currently under its fourth state of emergency, which will last until August 22, covering the duration of the Olympics which begin Friday and end on August 8. Fans are banned […]
Cases of COVID-19 among Olympic delegates are on the rise and around 15% of those who stay behind are unvaccinated, prompting medical experts to warn of potential ripple effects if the world’s largest sporting event does not suppress the transmission of the virus. Scheduled to begin with the opening ceremony on Friday, the Tokyo-based Olympics have been touted as safe […]
The vast majority of new COVID-19 cases in Spain over the past five weeks have been detected among unvaccinated people, the country’s health minister said on Monday, as new infections increased by 27,286. Only 5.5% of new cases during the period were detected among people who had been fully vaccinated, said Carolina Darias, adding that 11.4% were partially vaccinated and […]
India’s excessive death toll during the pandemic could be 10 times the official toll of COVID-19, possibly making it the worst human tragedy in modern India, according to the most comprehensive research to date on the ravages of the virus in the South Asian country. Most experts believe India’s official death toll of over 414,000 dead is a vast understatement, […]
The last: Mississippi’s top public health official said the state was seeing a rapid rise in coronavirus infections. Dr Thomas Dobbs tweets that the “4th wave is here”. The Mississippi State Department of Health said Monday that 2,326 new cases had been confirmed from Friday to Sunday. This is the largest three-day increase reported in the state since February. The […]
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