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Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 23, 2020 5 years ago
Italy coronavirus outbreak as of Sunday has now spread to a total of 7 out of 20 administrative regions in Italy. Lombardy region has the highest number of confirmed cases with 91 of which 6 are from the city of Milan.
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Another 19 cases in Veneto , 2 in Emilia Romagna, 2 in Lazio and 1 in Piedmont, 1 in Tuscany and 1 in Puglia. The total nu...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 23, 2020 5 years ago
South Korean coronavirus crisis has evolved into a national pandemic as the government raised the country's alert level for the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease to its highest level red on Sunday, as the total number of infections rose to 602, and the death tally from the coronavirus reached six as of 4 p.m.
This is the first time that South Korea, traditionally...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 23, 2020 5 years ago
Medical experts and virologists are concerned about the high number of reinfections appearing in so called 'cured' or 'treated' coronavirus patients in China.
Cases of cured patients getting reinfected have emerged from Hubei and Sichuan provinces and have been documented by Chinese health authorities. To date about 72 such cases have been properly documented accordin...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 23, 2020 5 years ago
South Korea Coronavirus crisis escalates as Samsung Electronics announced on Saturday that coronavirus cases had been confirmed at its mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi, causing a shutdown of its entire facility.
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Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 23, 2020 5 years ago
Iran’s coronavirus outbreak is taking a turn as media reports have emerged of sporadic riots in various cities across Iran as the general public is losing trust in its government, accusing it of concealing the real magnitude of the coronavirus epidemic.
Sporadic riots were reported in Tehran, Qom, Markazi, Gilan, Ardabil, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Zanjan, Mazandaran, Golestan, Hamed...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 23, 2020 5 years ago
In an emerging story, health authorities and doctors in South Korea are concerned that more than 70,000 Chinese students that are in the midst of returning back to South Korea for the spring semester could end up being ‘vectors’ that help to spread the coronavirus.
Most of these students might not even know that they could be potential carriers as the incubation pe...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
Japan coronavirus cases continue to increase in the last 24 hours. Japanese health officials confirmed 25 new cases of the coronavirus infections on Saturday as public health authorities struggle to contain the local epidemic.
The total number of infected coronavirus cases is now 134 with thousands more of suspected cases pending investigations and testing. So far only 1 dead has been reported.
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Source:Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
China authorities have narrowed down the antiviral Favipiravir (Avigan) as one of the three drugs that is showing efficacy against the coronavirus in ongoing human trials. (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-020-00016-0)
Favipiravir, also known as T-705 or Avigan, is an antiviral drug that was originally developed by Toyama Chemical of Japan (owned b...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
Iran Coronavirus Outbreak now reached the city of Tehran, where new five confirmed cases has reported along with eight in the city of Qom, bringing the total cases nationwide to 31.
Also another death from the coronavirus was reported in Qom, bring the death toll to 5 for Iran.
Iranian Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told state television that out of thousa...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
Italy coronavirus situation is fast expanding to other areas with cases now detected even in Piedmont and Puglia regions.
Meanwhile, health authorities reported that a second person in Italy has died from complications from the new coronavirus, Italian news agency ANSA said on Saturday.
The sudden death of a woman in the northern region of Lombardy follows that of a 78-year-old man...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
South Korea coronavirus outbreak is getting more worrisome as the number of cases is increasing by the hour.
Health authorities from South Korea reported an hour ago that there are 87 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the last few hours with thousands more being tested and awaiting results.
The total number of confirmed coronavirus infected cases in South Korea is now 433 with 2 d...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
The incubation period of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease can be as long as 27 days according to a new media report by Reuters based on statements by Health authorities in Hubei.
In a clinically observed case involving a 70-year-old man in China's Hubei province was who infected with coronavirus, the infected individual did not show symptoms&n...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
Italy’s Coronavirus Outbreak situation has taken a turn for the worse according to Italian news agency, ANSA. It has reported that 16 new coronavirus cases was detected in the last few hours bringing the national total to now 22 cases.
Officials said that 14 people have been infected with the coronavirus in Italy’s administrative region of Lombardy, while two...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
South Korea coronavirus crisis continues to escalate with 142 news cases since the last few hours. The current nationwide toll is 346 but this is expected to rise very sharply in the next few hours as thousands of suspected cases are manifesting symptoms and are undergoing testing.
So far two deaths have been recorded resulting from the coronavirus.
Of the 142 new cases, 92 are related to Daen...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 22, 2020 5 years ago
China continues with its daily confusing reporting protocols of releasing fake death tolls and total number of infected cases along with constant changes of diagnostic criteria and classification of coronavirus infected cases so often, that even its own health authorities are now ever so confused.
There are days when only figures from Hubei are reported, while the figures from other ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
South Korea Coronavirus crisis is escalating by each hour. A second coronavirus patient has died in South Korea, according to South Korea’s National Disaster Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters.
The dead patient was identified as a woman born in 1965. She was confirmed to have the coronavirus only just today.
The first patient in South Korea to die from the n...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
Japan coronavirus epidemic continues to escalate as Japanese health authorities reported on Friday 12 new confirmed cases from the coronavirus including a toddler from Saitama prefecture and 2 young brothers from Hokkaido.
Of the two brothers, one was below the age of 10.
The latest cases bring Japan’s total coronavirus confirmed cases to 106.
However the number ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
Iran health authorities reported on Friday that there has been two more deaths from the coronavirus along with 13 new confirmed cases just in the last few hour alone, bringing the total number infected cases in the country to 18.
Most of the cases are in the shite province of Qom and it is said there are at least two hundred more suspected coronavirus cases.
Deputy Health Minister ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
South Korea Coronavirus crisis is now fast escalating with almost 100 new confirmed coronavirus cases bring the toll to now 204 as of press time.
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However the numbers is expected to continue to mount as thousands are being tested with many exhibiting symptoms.
The total number in Daegu province alone stood at abo...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
China authorities had more than a dozen prison and justice department officials in three Chinese provinces removed from their posts on Friday, after the prisons reported altogether 460 new cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection on late Thursday, which epidemiology experts say revealed the blind zones in the national campaign against the coronavirus epidemic.
Shandong province reported 20...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
Coronavirus research studies show that the new SARS-CoV02 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease has infected more men than women, and medical scientists are divided about why that is.
A detailed coronavirus research study of more than 44,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in China offers one of the broadest pictures of how the virus operates in humans so far. The study found that ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
Much to the annoyance of China’s Health authorities, Beijing’s Peking University People’s Hospital held its own press conference this morning to announce a total of 22 people at the Hospital, including patients and medical workers, have been placed under centralized quarantine for medical observation after an elderly patient in the hospital was confirmed for the coronavirus  ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
South Korea has declared the southeastern cities of Daegu and Cheongdo as "special care zones" on Friday as a cluster of coronavirus cases have been reported there in recent days with the number of suspected cases that are being observed all over Korea now coming to almost 8,415. Most are being tested or awaiting test results or are quarantined.
The total number of confirmed cases is ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 21, 2020 5 years ago
China Health Authorities new methodology of reporting figures is making no sense and causing lots of confusions among local and international media and even data reporting centers across the world who are reporting on the coronavirus tolls via their live sites. The accuracy of all such data reported by any media can now doubted including those by Thailand Medical News on the death toll...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 20, 2020 5 years ago
Speaking at a press conference Thursday in Beijing, Dr Wang Guiqiang, director of the infectious disease department of the Peking University First Hospital, explained the changes in the sixth scheme (6th edition after amendments), which is China’s version of official clinical guidelines for the diagnostics and treatment of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease.
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Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 20, 2020 5 years ago
South Korea is ‘heavily competing’ with Japan to seize the title of the second epicenter for the coronavirus outside China as new cases are again detected in the few hours with another 3 more infected cases confirmed at Daegu, bring the total number of coronavirus infected cases to now 107.
However a breaking report now claims that 2 hospitals could be sites for mass infection...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 20, 2020 5 years ago
Health authorities from South Korea reported on a 1500 hrs Bangkok time (Thursday, Feb 20) the first death in the country of a person infected with coronavirus and 22 new cases in the last hour bringing the total to 104.
Majority of the new cases of confirmed coronavirus infections are in Daegu followed by the province of North Gyeongsang and also Seoul.
The South Korean...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 20, 2020 5 years ago
In the last 4 hours , 5 more cases of confirmed coronavirus infections was reported in Daegu province of South Korea, bringing the national toll to 87. However there are hundreds being tested and awaiting results.
The mayor of the South Korean city of Daegu has urged its 2.5 million people on Thursday to refrain from going outside as cases of a new coronavirus spike. Mayor Kwon Youn...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 20, 2020 5 years ago
New cases of confirmed coronavirus infections are being reported on a daily basis in countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
South Korea had the biggest increase with reported confirmed coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. 51 news cases emerged, bringing its total number of cases to 82.
Of the total new cases, almost half of these new cases was the result of an id...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 20, 2020 5 years ago
China has announced that it has changed its counting method for new confirmed coronavirus cases as it revises its diagnostic criteria which now discards all CT scans as an additional means of verification and reverts back to only traditional nucleic acid tests (NATs) ,this despite the fact that many false negatives were noted by the previous method.
Many Chinese doctors were dismayed by the ann...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 19, 2020 5 years ago
ISNA news agency, Iran's semi-official news entity said that authorities have confirmed two cases of the new coronavirus, the first in the country.
The media report on Wednesday afternoon did not elaborate on the nationality of the two people infected by the coronavirus nor their ages or gender.
ISNA quoted an official in the country's health ministry, Kiyanoush Jahanp...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 19, 2020 5 years ago
The ACC or American College of Cardiology (ACC) has released a clinical bulletin that addresses cardiac implications of the current SARS-Cov-2 epidemic that causes the Covid-19 disease.
The clinical provides information on the potential cardiac implications from analog viral respiratory pandemics and offers early clinical guidance given current SAR-Cov-2 uncertainty.
Initial reports from China...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 19, 2020 5 years ago
Israel has issued a ban of all non-Israeli’s arriving from Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau due the coronavirus.
This was an upgrade from the initial travel restrictions imposed earlier in which all travellers from these four countries were supposed to undergo a compulsory 14 day quarantine.
In addition to the new ban, all Israelis coming back from the 4 countries and o...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 19, 2020 5 years ago
Coronavirus research with respect to understanding the genomic structures of the new SARS-CoV02 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease along genophenotype studies, studies about the properties of the new coronavirus, it cellular path way behavior to even the development of vaccines and potential drugs are currently underway in full steam at the moment with close to more than 376 research stu...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 19, 2020 5 years ago
South Korea reported 15 news cases of individuals infected with the new coronavirus bringing its total number of cases in the country to 46.
11 cases were linked to what is known as a ‘super-spreader’, a 61 year old woman from Daegu province who passed the coronavirus to other worshippers in the church that she attended.
According to sources, there are about another 420 s...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 19, 2020 5 years ago
In a reflection how unethical and profit centered certain American big corporations are, even in times of a global health crisis such as the coronavirus epidemic that has so far killed more than 2009 people and infected 75,200 if not actually more and also how “filthy’ certain local Thai media corporations are, we are detailing a list of recent events concerning a research piece ...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 19, 2020 5 years ago
While China and even Who leadership lead by Ethiopian national Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus are claiming that coronavirus epidemic is peaking in China and also claiming that the number of infected cases are ‘slowing’, a new report which is the 5th in series submitted by Imperial College research team from the MRC (Medical Research Council) Centre for Global Infectiou...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 19, 2020 5 years ago
Authorities in Russia announced on Tuesday said it would ban all Chinese citizens from entering its territory with effective from February 20, in a drastic measure against the spread of the new coronavirus.
Deputy Prime Minister in charge of health, Tatiana Golikova told media, "The entry of all Chinese citizens via Russia's state frontiers will be suspended from February 20 for work t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 18, 2020 5 years ago
Singapore announced 4 more new cases of coronavirus infections today, bring the total to now 81 in the country with hundreds more suspected cases being investigated. All four news cases had been in prior contact with other infected individuals including one who is a medical personnel.
There are hundreds more of suspected cases in Singapore that are being investigation and some are a...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 18, 2020 5 years ago
Coronavirus Research scientists from the University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center data through analyzing genetic sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease have identified potential immunological vulnerabilities that could help in vaccine and drug development, along with further study of the infectious disease now spreading worldwide.
Most signif...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 18, 2020 5 years ago
State television in China has announced that Dr Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, died at 10.30am (February 18th), due to the new coronavirus.He is second prominent Chinese doctor to have succumbed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the Covid-19 disease.
Only yesterday another report was published by the Chinese CDC that refuted the Federal governments clai...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 18, 2020 5 years ago
Healthcare professionals both in India and overseas have criticized the Indian Government for allowing its Ministry of AYUSH, which promotes alternative medicine systems in the country, to release a health advisory on January 29 that advocates the use of homeopathy to ward off infections of the newly circulating SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease. This includes the ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 18, 2020 5 years ago
Media reports are emerging that Thailand's Public Health Ministry has advised Thais planning trips to Singapore and Japan to postpone their visits, citing the rising number of people infected by the coronavirus in the two countries.
It was reported that permanent secretary at the Public Health Ministry in Thailand, Dr Sukhum Kanchanapima said that the coronavirus outbreak in...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 18, 2020 5 years ago
Japan risk having a domestic coronavirus epidemic according to epidemiologists from the UK and US. They are warning that Japanese health authorities need to take more stringent measures as it risk developing a local domestic coronavirus epidemic due to a variety of possible factors and reasons.
In reality Japan has only 66 confirmed coronavirus infections as the remaining 454 cases were f...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 18, 2020 5 years ago
The latest coronavirus research for a treatment protocol was conducted by state owned company, China National Biotec Group who recently experimented using blood plasma donated from recovered patients to treat critically sick patients. The donated plasma contained valuable proteins that could help fight off the coronavirus. Plasma infusions are just one of many treatment options experts...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 18, 2020 5 years ago
A new research study published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology by researchers from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that there was 3,109 cases of medical personnel ranging from doctors and nurses and other healthcare professionals who were infected with the coronavirus. This study covered 72,314 suspected cases as of Feb. 11, among which 44,672...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 17, 2020 5 years ago
A coronavirus research team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' (NIAID's) Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana, United States has released a latest series of detailed images for the first time from their lab showing the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
This transmission electron microscope image shows the SARS-CoV2 virus Credit: NIAID-RM...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 17, 2020 5 years ago
Latest Coronavirus research study by genomic researchers from Peking Union Medical College in China has revealed that the genome of new SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease has 380 amino acid substitutions when compared to the genome of the original SARS-CoV. (note that the SARS-CoV-2 if the official name of the novel 2019-nCoV virus)
Furthermore it was discovered t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 17, 2020 5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus infected cases has now reached a total of 35 after Thailand’s health ministry reported one new coronavirus case today, a 60 year-old Chinese woman whose family had already contracted the virus.
Sukhum Kanchanapimai, the health ministry's permanent secretary told a media conference, "This is from an old case of a Chinese family of nine, all of them have ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 17, 2020 5 years ago
The new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 which causes the Covid-19 disease made its debut to the world in early December 2019 in Wuhan, China with its origins still remaining a mystery with so many questions as to which animal it jumped from thru a zoonotic transmission.
Certain fake news sites came up with conspiracy theories the virus was man-made but detailed genomic analysis by researche...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 17, 2020 5 years ago
In another blow to China’s PR machine, the newly build 1,600 bed hospital in Wuhan that was named the Thunder God Hospital and was China’s pride to show the world that despite the coronavirus epidemic and the pressure that it was facing, it was resilient and capable of achieving amazing feats, was deemed unusable yesterday when a heavy wind and snow storm hit Wuhan on Sunday.
Patient...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 17, 2020 5 years ago
China public health authorities released figures for this morning’s death toll from the ravaging coronavirus epidemic with 100 new death cases reported for Hubei alone. Another 6 deaths were reported in other parts of the country, bringing the death toll to now 1,772 while the number of confirmed infected stands at 71,248. 11,272 patients are in severe critical condition. (note that th...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 16, 2020 5 years ago
The current number of confirmed infected cases of the coronavirus outside China is now 780 patients spanning 29 countries. However the number of suspected cases worldwide is ever increasing with about close to 52,630 cases spanning 114 countries. Most of these suspected cases are under observation and are pending testing or are awaiting test results. It must be noted that a high percentage o...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 16, 2020 5 years ago
A latest coronavirus research by medical scientists from Nanjing Medical University and Suzhou Hospital lead by Dr Jianqing Wang, Head of the Department of Urology, at Suzhou Hospital say that certain males affected by the SARS-Cov2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease might likely become infertile even if they recover from the infection.
According to the new researched published...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 16, 2020 5 years ago
Gilead’s second batch of antiviral drug, Remdesivir which was dispatched through FedEx has arrived in Wuhan to be used for two ongoing clinical trials against the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus that that has so far killed more than 1,670 people as a result of the Covid-19 disease that it causes.
The experimental drug is to be tested on a total of 760 patients. A total of 5000 drug doses and ...