Tag: Virus

March 11 (BBC) - Adam Castillejo is still free of the virus more than 30 months after stopping anti-retroviral therapy. He was not cured by the HIV drugs, however, but by a stem-cell treatment he received for a cancer he also had, the Lancet HIV journal reports. The donors of those stem cells have an uncommon gene that gives them, and now ...

Beijing, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A coronavirus patient initially discharged following recovery in southwestern Sichuan province’s Chengdu city has been readmitted after testing positive again during a quarantine period at home, the city’s public health clinical center said on Friday. Similar cases have been reported in other regions, the center said in a statement. China’s National Health Commission recommends recovered ...

Ulaanbaatar, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Mongolia will keep all its schools shut until March 30 in order to prevent the coronavirus from spreading in the country, the government said on Wednesday. The flu-like virus has already killed more than 2,000 people in its southern neighbor, China. Though Mongolia has yet to report any cases, it has sealed off the border ...

Beijing, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The Chinese province at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in the death toll on Thursday under a new diagnostic method, and Beijing sacked two top provincial officials after criticism of their handling of the crisis. Health officials in Hubei province said 242 people had died from the flu-like virus on ...

Feb 12 (China Daily) - Eighteen patients with the novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan recovered and were released from a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday after receiving treatment that combined traditional Chinese medicine with modern medicine. The patients range from 23 to 67 years old, and one of them was in critical condition, according to Hubei Provincial Hospital ...

London, Feb 5th (Reuters) - A leading British scientist has made a significant breakthrough in the race for a coronavirus vaccine by reducing a part of the normal development time from “two to three years to just 14 days”, Sky news reported. Robin Shattock, head of mucosal infection and immunity at Imperial College London, said he is now at the ...

The World Health Organization declared on Thursday that the new coronavirus outbreak was a global health emergency, acknowledging that the disease represents a risk outside of China, where it emerged last month. The declaration — officially called a Public Health Emergency of International Concern — serves notice to all United Nations member states that the world’s top health advisory body rates ...

London, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Here are some key features of new coronavirus that was identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December and is causing an outbreak of disease in China and beyond. ** Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that get their name from what they look like under a microscope - they are spherical and ...

Colombo, Jan. 28 - All Sri Lankan students arriving from Wuhan, China will be moved to and screened at the Diyathalawa army camp for two week’s time, says Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi. She stated this addressing the special media briefing on the measures taken to curb the spread of new coronavirus, Ada Derana reports. Minister Wanniarachchi further stated that ...

Colombo, Jan.27 (newsin.asia) - A Chinese national, in her early 40's who recently arrived in Sri Lanka from the Hubei Province has tested positive for the new coronavirus, the Health Promotion Bureau said. This is the first case to be detected in the island country. The patient has been admitted to the National Infectious Disease Hospital and is being treated ...