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A fifth person has tested positive for the coronavirus infection in Nepal, confirmed the health ministry.A 19-year-old girl who travelled to Kathmandu from Belgium via Qatar has tested positive for COVID-19, stated spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Bikash Devkota. “This is the fifth case and this too, like the last…

The two COVID-19 patients currently in isolation at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Diseases Hospital for treatment are recovering.Spokesperson of the hospital Dr Anup Bastola said both the patients are responding well to treatment and are doing fairly well.On Friday evening, rumours were rife that one of the patients, the 19-year old…

The Ministry of Health and Population has confirmed another positive case of COVID-19."A 34-year old man has tested positive for the virus and he has been kept in isolation in Seti State Hospital, Dhangadhi," said Dr. Bikash Devkota, Spokesperson at the Health Ministry.Dr. Devkota said that he had returned to Nepal from Dubai and was…

The United States now has the most detected cases in the world. States are pleading for supplies as cases spike outside New York City. And health workers, short on protective gear, face growing dangers the world over.Scientists warned that the United States someday would become the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. That…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus and is suffering mild symptoms, the British government said on Friday. He is the first leader of a major Western country known to have contracted the virus.Mr. Johnson, in a video posted to Twitter, said he had “a temperature and a persistent cough.”Also Read : Prince…

Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday that he would have China’s support in fighting the coronavirus, as the United States faces the prospect of becoming the next global epicentre of the pandemic.The United States now has the most coronavirus cases of any country, with 84,946 infections…

The number of people infected with the new coronavirus exceeded 500,000 on Thursday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University in the US.The same data also showed that the death toll from Covid-19 had surpassed 22,000, with Italy alone claiming more than 8,000 fatalities, as the coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of abating while…

More than 680 people have died from coronavirus in Italy in the last 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said on Wednesday, as concerns grew that the disease was spreading more towards the south of the country.The death toll increased by 683 on Wednesday. That was lower than a spike of 743 on Tuesday but more than the totals of the…

Professor Jackie Ying, who heads the NanoBio Lab at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), and her team have come up with a rapid test that can tell if a person has Covid-19 in as little as five minutes. When approved, this would be about the fastest test out there for Covid-19.They hope to submit the test for approval in…

After the President of the United States, Donald Trump, claimed that Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin together could possibly cure the COVID-19 patient, the market consumption of these two medicines has soared rapidly."Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin taken together have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the…