COVID-19 patients

SEOUL: North Korea has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers as it mobilizes more than a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country’s first Covid-19 outbreak, state media…

BEIJING: China's largest city of Shanghai will soon begin lifting lockdown in communities that report no positive cases within 14 days after another round of Covid-19 testing, authorities said on Saturday. The fresh round of testing comes…

In Kharkiv's regional infectious diseases hospital, doctors escort those COVID-19 patients they can down to the bomb shelter in the basement when the air raid sirens sound. But the most seriously ill, needing constant oxygen supply, cannot…

Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last Fall's Delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks. The seven-day…

Tokyo witnessed its fourth record number of daily Covid-19 infections on Saturday, breaking above 10,000, while Japan’s exceeded 50,000 for the first time as the Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly. The capital had 11,227 new…

LONDON: England's National Health Service is building temporary structures at hospitals around the country to prepare for a possible surge of Covid-19 patients as the highly transmissible omicron variant fuels a new wave of infections. The…

Idaho public health leaders on Thursday expanded health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare made the…

<!-- -->Intubation is a procedure where a tube is inserted into the windpipe to make it easier to breath.Toronto: Convalescent plasma does not reduce the risk of intubation or death in COVID-19 patients, according to a study which…

Researchers around the world are trying to turn the humble cough into an inexpensive tool to diagnose and stop respiratory-disease killers like tuberculosis and Covid-19. They’re collecting recordings of millions of the explosive…

US researchers have developed an online tool using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help medical staff quickly determine which Covid-19 patients will need help breathing with a ventilator. The team at Case Western Reserve University…