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Comfort, Mercy take small number of referral patients so far

Apr 02, 2020 (UPI)

The USNS Mercy has treated a total of 15 patients since it began treating patients in Los Angeles Sunday, according to Capt. John Rotruck, the Mercy's commandin...

Surprise virus boost for long-awaited Bulgaria 'e-health' plan

Mar 31, 2020 (AFP)

"We are offering to donate 15,000 man-hours from our experts to improve the public health system," Ilia Krastev from the AIBEST association of tech businesses s...

'When I wake I cry': Hell of nurses on France's COVID-19 front line

Mar 30, 2020 (AFP)

The wave of sound from the nightly ritual in support of the country's health workers has become a morale-boosting moment of communion for a population confined ...

USNS Comfort arrives in N.Y., military mobilizes for COVID-19 fight

Mar 30, 2020 (UPI)

The ship entered New York harbor and passed the Statue of Liberty on its way to Manhattan's Pier 90 on Monday morning, arriving from Virginia. It will treat urg...

France steps up coronavirus evacuations from packed hospitals

Mar 29, 2020 (AFP)

Two specially equipped high-speed trains carried 36 patients from Mulhouse and Nancy toward hospitals along France's western coast, where the outbreak has been ...

Fever checks, hazmat suits: China hospitals take no chances after virus lockdown

Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)

Huanggang, one of the wost affected cities in Hubei where the coronavirus emerged late last year, has not reported a new infection since March 4. Hospitals are ...

US navy hospital ship reaches virus-struck Los Angeles

Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)

The USNS Mercy, which docked in the Port of Los Angeles, will quickly become the city's largest hospital with 1,000 beds. It will not receive coronavirus patien...

MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator

Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)

The team, called MIT E-Vent (for emergency ventilator), was formed on March 12 in response to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its members were brough...

'Printing money': booming mask producers in China meet global demand

Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)

At the height of China's outbreak in early February, Guan Xunze's company created a new mask factory in just eleven days. The factory, with five production line...

London hospitals facing tsunami of patients; Spain buys 432M euro in med supplies from China

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

The chief executive of NHS Providers, Chris Hopson, told BBC radio that London hospitals had seen an "explosion of demand... in seriously ill patients", likenin...

London hospitals facing 'tsunami' of virus patients: NHS bosses

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

Scientists, though, warned that thousands of new ventilators may come too late while the government said it failed to join a European scheme to boost capacity b...

Industry races to meet demand for ventilators

Mar 25, 2020 (AFP)

Along with a shortage of masks and gloves, the spread of COVID-19 to almost every corner of the globe has highlighted a great need for specialised machines that...

Hospital ship USNS Mercy heads to Los Angeles in COVID-19 response

Mar 23, 2020 (UPI)

The ship, with 1,000 beds, is built to treat those wounded by war and trauma, and will not treat Southern California's COVID-19 cases. Its visit, expected to la...

Pharma chiefs expect coronavirus vaccine in 12-18 months

Mar 23, 2020 (AFP)

Bureaucracy could be slashed to speed up the process - but the time needed for safety testing could not be compromised, industry chiefs and the International Fe...

Spain looks to China for help in fighting virus

Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)

Speaking to reporters, Sanchez confirmed the matter had come up during a phone conversation with the Chinese leader, which came just days after the Spanish gove...

Moscow plans coronavirus medical centre on Chinese model

Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)

The new 500-bed facility, in a sparsely populated region 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Moscow, will "use the experience of colleagues in China", said Andrei Boc...

'Keep us safe!' US nurses hold protests over virus failings

Mar 13, 2020 (UPI)

"We need the proper protection... if we aren't safe, our patients and our community aren't safe," warned Marcia Santini, an emergency room nurse at the Universi...

China virus fight sparks outcry over female frontline staff

Mar 07, 2020 (AFP)

Reports that some medical staff were given birth control pills in order to delay their periods have also prompted outrage. As the world marks International Wome...

Light-activated coating kills bacteria

Mar 05, 2020 (UPI)

More importantly, the coating could be used on medical equipment like catheters and breathing tubes, the main sources of of healthcare-associated infections. Th...

New normal in virus-hit China: High-tech tracking and fever checks

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

China appears to be coming to grips with the virus, which emerged late last year and has infected more than 80,000 people and killed nearly 3,000 in the country...