Having a specific blood type may help protect you against the novel coronavirus.
Researchers at genetic testing company 23andMe found that people with type O blood were up to 18 percent less likely to test positive for coronavirus.
Prince Charles has released a message thanking teachers for their efforts, parents and schools for their efforts to continue children’s education during the coronavirus crisis.
He expressed his “heartfelt gratitude to everyone in Teach First for all they are doing to support the schools, teachers and pupils most affected by this pandemic.
More than six months into the Coronavirus pandemic, this is not the time for any country to take its foot off the pedal,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online briefing on Monday.
His top emergency expert, Dr. Mike Ryan, said cases of infection in central American countries were still on the rise.
There are concerns of a spike in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks after thousands of protesters attended rallies across Australia at the weekend.
Two new cases have been recorded in Victoria in the past 24 hours.
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton said anyone who marched at the weekend and gets sick needs to get tested immediately.
Maurizio Cecconi, head of intensive care at the Humanitas research hospital in Milan, says society will have to “learn how to live” with coronavirus until there is a vaccine.
If there is an increase in transmission, we need to be ready to slow down again, and maybe to put restrictive measures again,” he said.
Thousands of people are expected at the marches to protest against police brutality and show support for Indigenous Australians.
But authorities are concerned social distancing will be breached and marchers could become infected with COVID-19.
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has urged people not to attend the Melbourne demonstration. Up to 20,000 people are expected at the march in Melbourne.
“We are concerned about the potential for a second wave of Coronavirus,” Ms. Mikakos said, urging protesters to contact their MPs instead.
Premier Warns warned that NSW is yet to feel the “severe” economic consequences of COVID-19, despite the biggest contraction in its economy in 20 years.
This week the State Government dumped its plan to renovate Sydney Olympic Stadium, so the $810 million earmarked for that project could be directed into a $3 billion infrastructure fund, which aims to generate 20,000 jobs.
The University of Southern Denmark announced on Wednesday that Danish researchers had developed the world’s first fully automatic robot capable of carrying out throat swabs for Coronavirus so that healthcare professionals are not exposed to the risk of infection.
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared a new Ebola outbreak in the western city of Mbandaka.
Health Minister Eteni Longondo said that the Ebola outbreak had killed four people in Mbandaka.
At a press conference, Longondo said, “We will send them the vaccine and medicine very quickly,” he planned to visit the site of the outbreak at the end of the week.
The Federal Government will invest $66 million for research into a coronavirus vaccine and antiviral medications.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said, for the nation’s containment strategy and flattening of the curve.
Australia had been lauded for being one of the most reliable testing methods in the world, Mr. Hunt said.
By midnight, Australia is set to surpass 1.5 million coronavirus tests.
