Rules on isolation rooms for suspected covid-19 cases in GP surgeries to be relaxedGPs seeing patients who might have covid-19 can give them a face mask and ask them to sit two metres away from other people in the surgery if no spare room is available, new guidance is expected to say...
DUBLIN, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Irish government on Wednesday announced a number of changes to its existing rules regarding the isolation and testing for COVID-19 cases and close contacts. Under the new rules, the self-isolation period for a person who has COVID-19 will be shortened to ...
LJUBLJANA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- From Wednesday, Slovenia will relax the rules on mandatory self-isolation after being in contact with a positive case of COVID-19, Health Minister Janez Poklukar said on Monday. The government's aim is to keep the country's overburdened hospitals functioning,...
Compliance with social isolation rules is an important aspect of COVID-19 prevention. As a result of these rules, individuals have been unable to access information face-to-face during the pandemic. For this reason and because of the ease with which information can be found online, many ...
During this period, lock-down was prohibited, contact tracing was stopped, and quarantine at centralized location was replaced by home isolation, etc.2. Testing and reporting became voluntary. This abrupt exit from zero-COVID raised public health concerns about the unchecked spread of SARS-CoV-...
“But this week, for example, the Pfizer CEO said they could demonstrate efficacy with very small numbers (Herper2020a) of cases in the placebo and vaccine groups; these numbers seem totally out of line with what would be considered stopping rules. I mean, you're talking about giving a va...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Travelers and authorities from India and some African countries are furious — and confused — about Britain's new COVID-19 travel rules, calling them discriminatory.
Although most respondents believed that COVID-19 prevention measures (e.g., mask wearing and social distancing rules) reduced their social phobia, these measures were not significantly associated with social phobia levels in the multivariable analyses. In conclusion, Chinese college students’ social ...
The rules revoked led to weaker standards and procedures for pesticides and changed the definition of permanent preservation areas. This last decision reduces the protection of coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves and sandy coastal plain vegetation, which have an important role in coastal protection, ...
or isolation of individuals affected by a disease or regions experiencing an outbreak. This stigma extends not only to those directly affected by the disease but also to individuals residing in areas with infectious disease outbreaks, resulting in discrimination and isolation (Abdelhafiz & Alorabi,202...