This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareThe latest figures from China suggest that the novel coronavirus outbreak remains worst in locked-down Hubei province, where 398 new cases and 149 more deaths were reported early Monday.Outside China, the outbreak continued to spread. South Korea said Sunday that it was raising its national threat level to “red alert,” the highest, as 169 new cases were confirmed Sunday and an additional 161 on Monday — making the country the most infected entity outside mainland China. In Italy, the number of cases spiked to 152, the...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareThe latest figures from China suggest that the novel coronavirus outbreak remains worst in locked-down Hubei province, where 398 new cases and 149 more deaths were reported early Monday.Outside China, the outbreak continued to spread. South Korea said Sunday that it was raising its national threat level to “red alert,” the highest, as 169 new cases were confirmed Sunday and an additional 161 on Monday — making the country the most infected entity outside mainland China. In Italy, the number of cases spiked to 152, the...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWith over 200,000 coronavirus cases worldwide and thousands of deaths, a striking pattern is appearing in the hardest-hit countries: more men are dying than women.Nowhere is this trend more pronounced than in Italy. Men make up nearly 60 percent of people with confirmed cases of the virus and more than 70 percent of those who have died of covid-19, the country’s main public health research agency.The alarming Italy data have caught the attention of the White House. Ambassador Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWith over 200,000 coronavirus cases worldwide and thousands of deaths, a striking pattern is appearing in the hardest-hit countries: more men are dying than women.Nowhere is this trend more pronounced than in Italy. Men make up nearly 60 percent of people with confirmed cases of the virus and more than 70 percent of those who have died of covid-19, the country’s main public health research agency.The alarming Italy data have caught the attention of the White House. Ambassador Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareSEOUL — It was 2 a.m. when Kim Do-gyun called South Korea's coronavirus hotline. He had a fever after returning from Malaysia. The hotline advice: Get tested.Hours later, the 35-year-old was at a nearby drive-through test site. A medic in a hazmat suit stuck a swab on a long stick into his nose to take a sample. The whole procedure took two minutes.The next morning, March 7, he received a text message from the testing center. The results were negative.Kim is one of more than 240,000 people who have been tested for the...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareSEOUL — It was 2 a.m. when Kim Do-gyun called South Korea's coronavirus hotline. He had a fever after returning from Malaysia. The hotline advice: Get tested.Hours later, the 35-year-old was at a nearby drive-through test site. A medic in a hazmat suit stuck a swab on a long stick into his nose to take a sample. The whole procedure took two minutes.The next morning, March 7, he received a text message from the testing center. The results were negative.Kim is one of more than 240,000 people who have been tested for the...WW…