Fifty Indian doctors have died from coronavirus in a single day as the country struggles with a punishing second wave of infections and deaths. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) said that 244 doctors had lost their lives to Covid-19 so far this year, with 50 dying on Sunday. On Monday evening, the former president of the … Read more
British man died in JANUARY from coronavirus: Grandfather, 84, who had NEVER left UK is pronounced earliest known fatality outside China after post mortem found COVID-19 in his lungs An 84-year-old man died at the end of January from Covid-19, it was claimed Peter Attwood’s death has been partly attributed to Covid-19 by a coroner … Read more
British man died in JANUARY from coronavirus: Grandfather, 84, who had NEVER left UK is pronounced earliest known fatality outside China after post mortem found COVID-19 in his lungs An 84-year-old man died at the end of January from Covid-19, it was claimed Peter Attwood’s death has been partly attributed to Covid-19 by a coroner … Read more
America has now recorded more than 150,000 COVID-19 fatalities, reaching a grim new milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday afternoon, Johns Hopkins University confirmed that 150,034 Americans have now died from the highly contagious virus, with more than half a dozen states clocking their highest daily number of fatalities in the past 24 hours. … Read more
Public transit may be the reason that black people are dying from the novel coronavirus at higher rates than whites, two new studies suggest. African Americans are more than 2.5 times likely than Caucasians to ride commuter rails, subways and buses – and 3.5 times more likely to die of the virus. One study found … Read more
An interactive map which shows coronavirus deaths by postcode reveals hundreds of towns and villages have managed to avoid a single fatality during the pandemic. Looking at the map, from Office for National Statistics data, reveals large swathes of Wales, South West and East England have remained unscathed by the virus which has blighted the majority of … Read more
An interactive map which shows coronavirus deaths by postcode reveals hundreds of towns and villages have managed to avoid a single fatality during the pandemic. Looking at the map, from Office for National Statistics data, reveals large swathes of Wales, South West and East England have remained unscathed by the virus which has blighted the majority of … 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
Scientists have crunched coronavirus statistics to reveal the fatality rate for infected patients with underlying health problems. Data shows patients with pre-existing conditions are more likely to suffer severe illness and die because their immune systems are weaker. Researchers in China, who studied more than 72,000 patients, found 10.5 per cent of heart disease sufferers … Read more