BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota health officials on Sunday said the state's COVID-19 update listed no deaths for a second straight day and showed another drop in hospitalizations.
GENEVA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that almost 15 million deaths globally were directly or indirectly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of 2021. According to the WHO's estimates, the full COVID-19 death toll, or "excess mortalit...
"Tuberculosis is the world's second top infectious killer after COVID-19, claiming close to 4,100 lives a day. Approximately 1.5 million people died from TB in 2020," Kasaeva said. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the situation worse for people with tuberculosis, as health funds have been ...
Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 280,000 on Sunday, reaching 280,507 as of 12:32 p.m. (1632 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)Prev 1 2 3 Next ...
FILE PHOTO: Funeral and crematorium employees work on a coffin carrying the body of a person who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before its cremation, as the number of deaths continue to rise due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at San Isidro cre...
The US Washington National Cathedral sounded 1,000 times to mark the 1 million Americans that have died in the COVID-19 pandemic.It is the US’ own failure to respond effectively to the crisis that has led to such a tragic loss of life.It is common sense to wear a mask against the ...
COVID-19DoctorsHCWHealth-care workersMortalityNursesHealthcare workers (HCW) are part of the frontline in the struggle against the pandemic.Many HCWs have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and have ldied worldwide during the pandemic.We performed an international survey and requested the total numbers...
The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths globally have continued to fall in the past week, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, with only the Western Pacific reporting an increase in COVID-19. In its latest report on the pandemic issued on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency sa...
WHO tasked scientists with determining the actual number of COVID-19 deaths between January 2020 and the end of last year. They estimated that between 13.3 million and 16.6 million people died either due to the coronavirus directly or because of factors somehow attributed to the pand...
With already poor medical treatment being further stretched due to COVID, staff absences, and lock down procedures, many people are getting even worse treatment for their non-COVID medical needs. This conflates the "cause of death" in some situations, yet if COVID is preventing prior treatment...