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Birmingham plans to use the army to provide extra capacity for its door-to-door COVID-19 vaccinating program.

As the latest figures showed a rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the city over the past five days, the council's deputy leader Brigid Jones said council staff had been redeployed to its "drop-and-collect" coronavirus testing service.

Ms Jones told a meeting of the  on Friday (September 25) that the initiative involved going door to door in high-risk areas offering testing kits to those with or without symptoms.

She told the meeting: "We have been in talks with the military about them giving us some extra capacity for drop-and-collect.

"It's very much in an extra capacity, feet-on-the-ground sense. It's literally just to support the civilian effort side of things and we'll be in a position next week to confirm whether or not they will be providing extra capacity and how that might be working."

Ms Jones said of the do…

Coronavirus California Hundreds Infected With Coronavirus Arrive

 

COSTA MESA  A federal judge Friday granted the city of Costa Mesa’s temporary restraining order requesting to block as many as 50 confirmed coronavirus patients from being transferred to the city.

Federal court papers filed Friday state that the federal government planned to transfer the patients from Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento to the former Fairview Developmental Center on Sunday or Monday.

Thursday night, Costa Mesa city officials began hearing of the plan by the Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC to move between 30 and 5o patients to the state-owned land.

Some of the patients are from the Diamond Princess cruise ship from which more than 300 U.S. citizens were removed Monday.

Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley said the city was surprised to learn that the Fairview Developmental Center was being considered for a group of patients who hav…

 

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Coronavirus is in New York.  New York now has a  coronavirus drive-through testing center . The coronavirus testing center  opened Friday morning in New Rochelle — the Westchester County town with the highest cluster of COVID-19 cases in the United States.

“This is drive-thru testing — something I didn’t hear of last week, but we’re doing this week,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

“Drive-through testing means people in this community can call a telephone number, make an appointment, and they can come to be tested and literally drive through the testing facilities.”

The set-up includes six drive-through lanes to handle 200 cars a day, Cuomo said. That’s about 15 minutes per car, he said.

The medical staff will come to the car, perform two tests per person and then send the swabs to BioReference Laboratories, the research lab in the state charged with processing.

“It’s not only f…

Pentagon deploys troops to vaccinate you with COVID-19 vaccine

 

 

 

Military troops begin vaccinating Man with COVID-19

 

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon will deploy troops to assist getting Americans to get vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccine, the White House said Friday.Coronavirus senior adviser Andy Slavitt announced that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It means about 1,000 active duty military personnel will deploy to help state vaccination centers.

President Joe Biden has called for setting up 100 mass vaccination centers around the country within a month. Two are opening in California, and Slavitt said military personnel will arrive at those centers in a little over a week.

COVID-19 Vaccine  Pentagon has scheduled a news briefing later Friday to provide more information about the military…

Airline Flights were major contributor to spread of coronavirus

 

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The spread of Covid-19 around the world was spurred on by air travel, with Britain linked to having facilitated the rapid spread of the virus due to its large number of flights

 

 

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Coronavirus spread across the world with the help of air travel, a new report has shown.

 

Though the UK introduced 14-days mandatory quarantine this week, it may not provide solace to anyone who had previously called for such measures.

 

A study by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) says the flow of air passengers across and within country borders had been "a major contributor to the spread of the virus."

 

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A possible case of coronavirus  in South Florida recently affected emergency operations at a hospital, according to reports.

Workers at Memorial Regional Hospital in Broward allegedly told at least one fire-rescue department not to bring anyone to their emergency room.

 

Dr. Bindu Mayi, an infectious disease specialist and professor of microbiology at Nova Southeastern University, says she had heard about the potential Hollywood case from medical colleagues.

 

“If there is a local case, it is something we [the public] should all be made aware of,” Mayi says. “The absence of information becomes conjecture and that’s a dicey thing.

 

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If there is a local case, people who are immune-suppressed may need to be more discerning about not being in large crowds or gathering where don’t know who has been…

coronavirus spread through eyes Doctor claims he caught  Cornavirus through eyes

 

The deadly coronavirus could be spread through patients' eyes, a top doctor has warned after becoming infected with the disease.

Wang Guangfa, from Beijing's Peking University First Hospital, confirmed he had contracted the flu-like virus in a social media post on Wednesday.

The respected medic was a leading figure in China's battle against the SARS virus in 2002 and 2003.

He now believes he caught the disease because he didn't wear protective eyewear.

Wang had reportedly been mocked by some in the media after contracting the disease, despite saying it was "preventable and controllable" just two weeks earlier.

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Delta Air Lines and Hawaiian Airlines have confirmed that a couple diagnosed with the coronavirus traveled on their flights in and around Hawaii earlier this month.

On Feb. 6, the couple, a husband and wife from Japan who are reportedly in their 60s, departed from Honolulu for Nagoya, Japan, on Delta flight 611, KHON2 reports. The State Department of Health [DOH] said that the couple previously arrived in the Aloha State on Jan. 28 and spent time in Maui until Feb. 3. That day, the couple traveled from Kahului to Honolulu on the island of Oahu on Hawaiian Airlines flight HA265, the airline confirmed.

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Oahu Hawaii, the husband and wife stayed at the Grand Waikikian by Hilton Grand Vacations. It remains unclear at this time on which airline they traveled to Hawaii on and where they stayed while in M…

 

 

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) -- A resident of Riverside County who was a passenger on a cruise ship docked under quarantine in Japan has tested positive for coronavirus, public health officials announced Tuesday.

The individual, who has not been publicly identified, is expected to full recover from the virus, formally known as COVID-19, according to the Riverside University Health System.

The infected person is currently listed in good condition at a medical facility in Northern California, according to Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County public health officer. There are no incidents of exposure or "locally acquired confirmed cases" within the county.

Santa Clarita man recently evacuated with wife from cruise ship in Japan confirms he has coronavirus

The Santa Clarita man who was recently evacuated with his wife from a coronavirus-stricken ship in Japan has confirmed he has the deadly virus.

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Coronavirus Chicago

 

Patients infected with Coronavirus are vomiting blood and dying from organ failure according to online reports.

Coronavirus Chicago

Experts are warning the deadly coronavirus is "evolving and mutating", with infected people now reported to be coughing up blood.

Coronavirus Chicago

The virus has been spreading across the world, having first emerged in the city of Wuhan where dozens of people have died.

Several Coronavirus  patients are now in Chicago.

Doctors in Chicago are now texting their patients telling them not to go outside unless they have a medical mask on according to one twitter user.

 

However, the death toll is thought to be much higher after disturbing images and videos have emerged of citizens collapsing on the street and corse-strewn hospitals.

The Chinese Government may have also hinted at the scale of the outbreak after starting to bui…

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CHICAGO  An Illinois resident has tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Cook County Department of Public Health.

 

The tests resulted in “presumptive” positives and will have to be confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

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The patient is hospitalized in isolation and CDC protocols have been implemented.

 

Public health officials are working to find people who were in contact with the patient in an effort to reduce the risk of additional transmission. The state will request the CDC deploy a team to Illinois for support.

 

Governor JB Pritzker has requested that hospitals across the state implement additional testing to improve surveillance for the virus. Illinois was the first state to provide t…

Amazon employee infected with  coronavirus

 

Amazon is informing employees that one of its Seattle-based workers has been diagnosed with coronavirus.

According to a mass email for all staff members in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, the employee infected with the novel coronavirus became ill on February 25 and has not been back to work since that time.

The company said it has directly notified all coworkers who had been in close contact with the patient. The worker was based at the downtown office building the company refers to as Amazon Brazil, according to the email.

An Amazon spoke…

 

 

 

At an emergency meeting in Beijing held last Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future.

A national system to control biosecurity risks must be put in place “to protect the people’s health,” Xi said, because lab safety is a “national security” issue.

Xi didn’t actually admit that the coronavirus now devastating large swathes of China had escaped from one of the country’s bioresearch labs. But the very next day, evidence emerged suggesting that this is exactly what happened, as the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive entitled: “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”

Read that again. It sure sounds like China has a problem keeping dangerous pathogens in test tubes where they b…

Coronavirus quarantined Man Breaks Quarantine sneaks flight to United States

 

 

 

Coronavirus quarantined Man Breaks Quarantine sneaks flight to United States

 

 

 

SEA-TAC AIRPORT, Wash. (KOMO) -- An Oregon comedian who had been stranded on a Holland America cruise ship in Cambodia due to COVID-19 virus concerns managed to get a flight back home by breaking quarantine in a hotel where ship's passengers were being held pending test results.

Frank King arrived at Sea-Tac Airport Monday afternoon on his way home to Eugene. He was a performer on the M/S Westerdam when their two-week cruise turned into quite the saga after a former passenger tested positive for the virus.

The ship left Hong Kong on Feb. 1 and was supposed to visit Shanghai but couldn’t because coronavirus gripped China. The ship was then denied entry in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Guam and Tha…

 

 

Black woman dies getting spit on by coronavirus infected white man

 

 

Police investigating death of black woman who died of coronavirus after being spit on by a coronavirus infected man are not arresting the white man .

 

Police refused to arrest white man who spit on and infected a black woman with coronavirus. She died from COVID-19 , her family is demanding justice from the police.

 

Police Detectives investigating the death of a black woman railway worker who died of coronavirus after being spit by a coronavirus infected passenger are taking no further action against the criminal.

 

A single mother who worked as a subway ticket seller at the Thameslink rail died from coronavirus after getting spit on by a white man at work.

 

Belly Mujinga, 47, from  North London, died from Covid-19 after a passenger spit on  her at Victoria Station.

 

British Transport P…

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Steps Taken to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 in Iceland

 

 

 

 

The first Icelander to be diagnosed with a confirmed case of COVID-19 coronavirus in Iceland has been quarantined in the Infectious Diseases ward at the National and University Hospital’s Fossvogur location. Public health officials confirmed this during a press conference on Friday afternoon, RÚV reports, just hours after the news of the virus’s arrival in Iceland was confirmed. Iceland’s Civil Protection Emergency level has been raised from Uncertainty to Alert.

The press conference was presided over by surgeon general Alma Möller, epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason, Guðlaug Rakel Guðjónsdóttir, the director of the hospital’s Emergency, Geriatrics, and Rehabilitation Services division, and Viðir Reynisson, the manager of the Police Commissioner’s Civil Protection and Emergency Management division.

The pa…

 

 

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A dispute at a Verizon store in Roseville, California, involving a woman who refused to wear a face mask escalated when she urinated on the floor and refused to leave, according to a 911 call obtained by CBS Sacramento.

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Three people at the Verizon store were "refusing to leave, not wearing a mask… they’ve asked several times and she refuses," a 911 dispatcher told police according to CBS Sacramento.

“They’re calling back and advising that that female is pulling down her pants and is now urinating inside the business," the 911 dispatcher later said.

 

Verizon requires all in-store customers to wear "a mask or cloth face covering," a company spokesperson told FOX Business.

 

Most major U.S. retailers, from Costco to Sam's Club, are requiring that customers wear face masks …

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Coronavirus infected person attended CPAC and shook hundreds of people hands during CPAC exposing thousands of people to possible Coronavirus at CPAC.

 

Efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak showed signs of faltering Saturday as Florida reported the United States’ first deaths outside the West Coast, Washington, D.C., confirmed its first case, and Italian leaders were scrambling on a plan that could lock down an entire region including Venice and Milan after reporting 1,000 new cases in 24 hours.

The Coronavirus outbreak at CPAC  full extend and the numbers of people exposed to the Coronavirus infected person at CPAC remains unknown.

 

CPAC  the American Conservative Union announced that an individual who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference less than two weeks ago, the coronavirus infection incubation period is 2 weeks some say as much as 24 days. Coronavirus in…

 

 

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New York Officials  announced they are monitoring 83 people who may have had potential exposure to the coronavirus, and test results for one resident are pending.

The 83 residents have been asked to undergo voluntary isolation, removing themselves from people, including their family members, for 14 days from the last time they were in mainland China or may have been exposed to the virus. They are required to report their temperature and any symptoms every day to Nassau County health officials.

"Should someone need medical care, we'll evaluate it and we have protocols in place to safely get them medical care," Nassau County Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Lawrence Eisenstein said during a press conference Wednesday.

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Dr. Eisenstein said up to this point, the majority of people who hav…

 

 

 

 

 

SAN ANTONIO – North Star Mall closed on Monday for a deep cleaning after officials were notified an evacuee who tested positive for coronavirus had visited the shopping center on Saturday, they confirmed in a Facebook post Monday afternoon.

 

Officials said the woman, who was evacuated from Wuhan, China, in early February, met the criteria for release after testing negative for the virus twice. Both of the tests were administered more than 24 hours apart, but a separate lab test that was pending when was released revealed a positive test result.

Mayor issues state of disaster, public health emergency in San Antonio over coronavirus

While the woman was in the community on Saturday, she checked into a hotel near the San Antonio International Airport and spent approximately two hours at North Star Mall, Metro …

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Texas Department of State Health Services said they are investigating a third case of the coronavirus virus in the state but would not give the precise location of that patient.

Test results are pending in that case for conformation. An official with Austin Public Health said that case is not in the city of Austin.

 

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Two university students -- from Texas A&M and Baylor University -- are still awaiting results for possible infection.

Texas Department of State Health Services confirms possible new cases of a deadly strain of the coronavirus in the state, Dr. Peter Hotez tells CBS Austin a vaccine for it was developed more than fifteen years ago.

"We're trying to confirm it now, but we think there's a good possibility of that SARS vaccine that we had manufactured could cross-protect against this n-coronavirus," he said. "There was no one willing to support the clinical de…

 

 

Coronavirus Pensacola Christian College

 

 

 

Coronavirus Pensacola Christian College

 

There is increased nationwide concern over the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and how it may impact our lives. Naturally PCC students and their parents are also concerned.

We received a call from a parent yesterday indicating they heard we had a case on campus. To be clear: there have been no instances of presumed or confirmed COVID-19 in our PCC community. Nonetheless, this is a very serious situation, and the health and safety of our students is first and foremost our top priority.

Every school and every state is grappling with determining the best course of action. Some states have advised that schools continue to meet as usual; others have advised differently. You may have heard in the news that state universities in Florida are moving to online learning for a period of time and asking…