Public Health Minister, Hamad Hassan, disclosed Saturday that the test results are good today, noting that out of 1050 examinations conducted, only 5 came out positive. “We are proceeding according to the plan that was very carefully developed, provided that there is no excessive optimism, because we are committed to ...

In South Korea, health officials are trying to solve a mystery: why 163 people who recovered from coronavirus have retested positive, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The same has been recorded in China, where some coronavirus patients tested positive after seeming to recover, although ...

The World Health Organization issued a warning  about coronavirus testing, saying there’s no evidence serological tests can show whether a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected. “These antibody tests will be able to measure that level of serology presence, that level of antibodies, but ...

Donald Trump has doubled down on his tweets calling for supporters to “liberate” three Democrat-led states under lockdown measures intended to slow the spread of coronavirus. During a wild and at times incoherent press conference performance on Friday, the US president spouted a series of mistruths and false claims, including his ...

Reported cases of the coronavirus have crossed 2.26 million globally and 154,613 people have died, according to a Reuters tally as of 1400 GMT on Saturday. AMERICAS *As some U.S. states look to start reopening their coronavirus-battered economies amid protests from supporters of President Donald Trump anxious to get back ...

Iran allowed some businesses in the capital Tehran to re-open on Saturday as the country’s daily death toll from the new coronavirus fell to 73, its lowest in more than a month. So-called low-risk businesses – including many shops, factories and workshops – resumed operations in Tehran, a week after ...

The Rafic Hariri University Hospital’s daily report on the latest developments regarding the Covid-19 epidemic, reflected Saturday promising news at various levels, the first of which being the results of 160 laboratory examinations which turned out to be negative, in addition to 5 recoveries, thus bringing the total number of ...

The Ministry of Public Health announced in its daily report on Saturday that 672 cases of coronavirus infections have thus far been detected, with 4 new cases reported this Saturday, April 18, 2020.

CDC continues to study the spread and effects of the novel coronavirus across the United States.  We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals with coronavirus lack symptoms (“asymptomatic”) and that even those who eventually develop symptoms (“pre-symptomatic”) can transmit the virus to others before showing ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, sent out “a humanitarian emergency call” via her Twitter account this afternoon, saying: “When we are united in the face of hardship, things become easier…It is not a joke that you fall ill and you are refused admission into a hospital in your ...