There are a variety of coronavirus tests, and each will have its own sensitivity and specificity. These two measures give an idea of how many test results will be false negatives or false positives, respectively. In some cases, studies don’t report the accuracy of their tests...
One of the key indicators of the situation across the country is how many new cases are being identified daily. The graph below suggests the epidemic has passed its peak in the UK as the number of daily cases has fallen consistently. But some modellers have predicted there may be more tha...
Last month, as China optimized its COVID-19 prevention policy, CGTN's Global Business sent reporters to various parts of the country to document the social and economic changes. After weeks of reporting, reporter Wang Tianyu discovered how small- and
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in minimizing the transmission of coronavirus. Whil
claim. We have all been stuck at home for four weeks. I know the test results in all of the large general hospitals in Shanghai. There are no new cases in recent weeks. To a large extent, it's because of the spring festival that we are successful. Now, we are going back to...
Children account for fewer than 2% of COVID-19 cases, the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology says. They found "transmission in schools appears to be very low" and children with the virus are likely to have caught it from an adult rather than another child, according toa bri...
Obviously, you must try and ensure that you aren’t putting children or staff in danger by putting too many people in one room, but there might be times when this strategy could be used safely. How can you make it work effectively?
If your symptoms linger or continue to come and go, you may have a chronic condition called long COVID. Because long COVID has many different signs and there's no test for it, it can be hard to diagnose. While the CDC defines long COVID as symptoms lasting 4 weeks, most doctors and...
Actually, COVID 19 is the name of a disease—coronavirus disease 19—that is caused by a new form of coronavirus, the SARS-CoV-2. The first cases of persons affected by this virus lived in the city of Wuhan in China. Then, the disease rapidly spread all around the world, so rapidly...
However, it is now thought that COVID-19 is spreading through human-to-human transmission mainly via droplets. As there is no definite antiviral therapy for the treatment of cases with COVID-19 the best option for slowing down the pandemic and reducing mortality rates is protection against the...