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Doctors in European countries including Spain and France are reportedly turning to euthanasia to ease the burden of coronavirus on already-overwhelmed health services. In both Spain and France, deaths from coronavirus have ballooned above the official number of dead in China, where the outbreak first began. In Spain, there have been 130,759 reported cases, with … Read more
Spain’s death toll rises by lowest amount this week with ‘top of the curve in sight’ as another 809 die from coronavirus and Prime Minister extends lockdown for another 15 days Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said State of Emergency must stay in place Deaths in the country have now reached 11,744, and there are 124,736 … Read more
Spain’s death toll rises by lowest amount this week with ‘top of the curve in sight’ as another 809 die from coronavirus and Prime Minister extends lockdown for another 15 days Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said State of Emergency must stay in place Deaths in the country have now reached 11,744, and there are 124,736 … Read more
Doctors around the globe report that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine seems the most effective treatment they’ve tried for coronavirus patients – but less than half as many doctors are prescribing it in the US as in other hard-hit countries like Spain. A survey of 6,200 doctors around the globe reveals that while few corners of … Read more
An exhausted nurse has told how 13-hour shifts on an intensive care unit ward have left her physically and mentally drained. Maria Lizcano Gómez, who works at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea, west London, was a recovery nurse but moved to the ICU for the coronavirus crisis. The NHS hero from Malaga, Spain, described … Read more
An exhausted nurse has told how 13-hour shifts on an intensive care unit ward have left her physically and mentally drained. Maria Lizcano Gómez, who works at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea, west London, was a recovery nurse but moved to the ICU for the coronavirus crisis. The NHS hero from Malaga, Spain, described … Read more
Travel data shows 3.4 million travelers from countries that would end up hardest-hit by the coronavirus outbreak entered the U.S. as the pandemic was starting. Figures from the U.S. Commerce Department from December, January and February, which were the critical early months in the outbreak, reveal how hundreds of thousands or even millions of undetected coronavirus … Read more
A hilltop fortress town in Spain that cut itself off from the rest of the world in a bid to tackle coronavirus has not recorded a single case among its inhabitants. Zahara de la Sierra sits high above the Andalusian countryside in southern Spain. On March 14, the same day Spain announced it was extending … Read more
The US was the first country to report 1,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day on Wednesday as the death toll soared past 5,000 – and it continues to rise. With more than 236,000 infections across the country, America is now worse affected by COVID-19 than any other country in the world has been. The … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more