South Korea has today reported no domestic coronavirus cases for the first time since February. Only four new cases were identified across the country, all of them imported from the Americas or elsewhere in Asia. South Korea has been widely praised for its mass testing and contact-tracing strategy, which other countries have sought to emulate. … Read more
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ fortunes continue to rise as a new SEC filing reports the streaming service’s co-founder received a total of $38 million in 2019. Hasting’s total pay package last year was up 16 per cent from what he was paid in 2018, reports Netflix in its annual proxy statement Wednesday. Hastings’ most recent … Read more
Armed police swarm around Bognor Regis seafront hotel to reports of a ‘man in distress carrying a knife’ Armed officers were snapped around the Royal Norfolk Hotel on The Esplanade The ‘ongoing incident’ in West Sussex involves a man in distress, police have said Part of seafront has been cordoned off and drone is being … Read more
Italy reports 433 more coronavirus deaths – the lowest figure in a week taking the country’s total to 23,660 Italy’s official daily death toll from coronavirus has dropped down slightly to 433 Country’s total number of deaths now stands at 23,660 – second only to the US Italy reported 3,047 new infections, which represented a … Read more
Italy has reported 482 deaths from coronavirus, its lowest daily figure since April 12, as the country’s total rose to 23,227. The number of new cases identified also fell by two to give a rise of 3,491, bringing the total to 175,925. The number of people in intensive care dropped by 79 to 2,733. Almost … Read more
Breaking news: France reports 642 more coronavirus deaths as country’s toll hits 19,323 up from 18,681 By Luke Andrews For Mailonline Published: 18:38 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 18:47 BST, 18 April 2020 France has reported 642 more deaths from coronavirus bringing the country’s total to 19,323, the fourth-highest tally in the world. The number … Read more
China reports 27 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 as it tries to stem an upsurge in infections in a north eastern province bordering Russia Twenty cases in Heilongjiang, including 13 Chinese who come back from Russia China’s death toll has risen to 4,632, reflecting revision of the figures for Wuhan In a social media post, … Read more
Remdesivir anti-viral trial reports ‘rapid recoveries’ for severe hospitalised coronavirus patients with ‘nearly all’ discharged within a week. University of Chicago Medicine recruited 125 people with Covid-19 into Gilead’s two Phase 3 clinical trials. Of those people, 113 had severe disease. All the patients were been treated with daily infusions of remdesivir. Most of them … Read more
Requests for donations towards the NHS, offers of tax refunds and coronavirus quizzes designed to harvest personal details are just some examples of the thousands of phishing attempts bombarding Britons at the moment, police revealed. Action Fraud, the UK’s fraud reporting service, said last week it had received almost 2,650 reports of coronavirus-related phishing since … Read more
When will it end? For everyone under lockdown orders in the coronavirus pandemic, that is the key question. How long until American life can return to normal, without risking the disease reigniting out of control and overwhelming hospitals? Examining the question are three new reports, from the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for American Progress, … Read more