Simply states the purity of their services ,the beauty within is seen not only through their actions, but through their expressions as well. Salute to all FRONTLINERS!.proved clinically effective in treating patients with the new type of coronavirus, according to the head of the Center for Biotechnology at the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Jan Sinmin.
“Favipiravir has already passed clinical trials, which have shown good efficacy in the treatment of coronavirus,” he said.
“Patients treated with this drug are healing faster and their lungs have recovered significantly faster than others,” he added.
The product was approved for sale in Japan in 2014 and to this date there are no reports of any side effects.
In patients treated with “Favipiravir” negative coronavirus tests were obtained as early as the fourth day of treatment, while others required approximately 11 days on average.
I’m glad to know that we’re not alone in this and all the medical workers are struggling from the same things all over the world , the lack of equipments and the ppl’s around us saying that we don’t have the right to be afraid and that we should go to work even without patient.
Significantly better lung conditions were also observed in all patients treated with the drug. Demonstrating the safety, efficacy and affordability of the product, the researchers formally recommend the doctors to “Favipiravir” and recommend that it be included as soon as possible in the treatment of patients with coronavirus, the statement said.
“Favipiravir” was developed by the Japanese corporation Fujifilm Holdings for the treatment of influenza. It has previously been used effectively in the fight against Ebola.
Someday this current situation will become a story to tell…..We will fight and defeat this monster together.
#Salute to all medics and paramedics.
This isn’t what you signed for but it part of what you will encounter..
I wish I have gotten to this stage so I can do my part in serving humanity
In what came as good news to the general citizens of the United of America as President Donald Trump finally gets an alternative cure to curb the widespread of Covid-19 in America.
The prominent leader of the United States of America took to his verified Twitter handle to declare that he is going to be giving consideration to a QUARANTINE of developing “hot spots”, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
It will be recalled that United States lawyer has filed a lawsuit against China over alleged Bioweapon invented to tackle the United States economy and the world in general.
We understand that the United States is currently leading the list of most coronavirus infected nations in the world.
There’s this Scam attempt going on in Nigeria since the outbreak of Coronavirus.
“”The Federal government of Nigeria has decided to help the citizens with some stipend to help them is the shutdown of markets and other business engagements that has made life difficult for most of the citizens in the country.
They have mapped out the sum of 8500 nairas for every citizen that has BVN.””
Please, disregard this message and don’t disclose your BVN to any body or input in any Link.
What’s BVN
The Bank Verification Number commonly called BVN is a biometric identification system implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria to curb or reduce illegal banking transactions in Nigeria. It is a modern security measure in line with the Central Bank of Nigeria Act 1958 to reduce fraud in the banking system.
The system works by recording fingerprints and a facial photograph of the client.
Issues arose where fraudsters attempted to use the launch of the system to phish for customers’ bank details.
NB:
BVN is your financial ID card, anyone that has access to it could use it to get all your financial information and use it for fraudulent purposes.
With your BVN, fraudsters can get your account number, the phone number you use for OTP and the rest of your financial information. With these details, they can take loans on your behalf without your knowledge, use your ATM cards to purchase items online and even withdraw/transfer money from your account.
Ensure you protect your BVN it could save you a lot of stress, and money.
As coronavirus continues to spread across the country and the globe, there is important information you should know about the potentially deadly disease, what you can do to mitigate its impact, and how you can keep yourself and others safe.
There are steps you should take to protect yourself and others before heading to the doctor or emergency room that will also help protect the nation’s health care systems.
Dave Jacek, 3D printing technical, wears a prototype of a 3D-printed medical face shield printed at Ford’s Advanced Manufacturing Center.
According to the CDC, coronaviruses are common in camels, cattle, cats and bats. Person-to-person transmissions are thought to occur when an infected person coughs or sneezes, similar to how influenza and other respiratory pathogens spread.
People with blood type A might be more vulnerable to the coronavirus, while those with type O blood could be more resistant, according to a study from China.Video
The novel coronavirus may be able to live on surfaces, namely metal, glass or plastic, for up to nine days — if it resembles some of its other human coronavirus-causing “cousins,” that is.
There are a few general rules to follow when it comes to washing your hands thoroughly, including for how long you should keep them under running water.
“Surgical masks will not prevent your acquiring diseases,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, and the medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread in the United States, many restaurants and fast food locations have closed dining rooms, and are only offering takeout or delivery options.
The CDC said that while risk to the American public remains low at this time, pregnant women should continue to engage in usual preventative actions to avoid infection, such as washing hands often and avoiding contact with people who are sick.
It’s well known that other respiratory conditions, such as the common cold or flu, can trigger asthma symptoms, possibly leading to an asthma attack, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. But Is the same true for the novel coronavirus?
Social distancing, hand-washing and avoiding those who are sick are among the top pieces of advice given to the general public, but for the immunocompromised, there are additional steps they can take.Video
Fox News received an in-depth look at the new disease from Dr. Debra Chew, a former epidemic intelligence officer for the CDC and an assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Chloroquine and a similar drug, hydroxychloroquine, have shown encouraging signs in small, early tests against the coronavirus, but they have yet to be studied during a controlled clinical trial.
Several medications are being investigated, but that doesn’t mean you should run out and buy them unprescribed, or try to recreate them in your home. Doing so could have dire consequences.
Former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert Amler told Fox News that a pneumonia shot will not be effective in staving off pneumonia caused by coronavirus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that if anyone in your house has tested positive, everyone in the house should self-quarantine for a minimum of 14 days or longer until the patient has no more symptoms and tests negative.
While the veterinary community is still dealing largely with unknowns amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, most of what they do know might come as a relief to pet owners.
It’s important to remember that children take cues from the adults that surround them, so how you address the virus at home may reflect in their behavior.Video
Coronavirus: Coping with isolation and social distancing
With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), many people have been forced to work from home and are choosing to keep their social interactions to a minimum. Here are some tips on how to stay sane in the time of coronavirus.
As more and more people across the U.S. are preparing to stay in for the time being, some may be asking if it’s safe to get food delivered to their house.
A woman sews high-quality face masks at a furniture factory in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed)
With more and more restaurants closing their dining rooms amid the coronavirus pandemic, many people are going to have to rely on cooking their own meals.
Parents have taken to social media to share their homeschooling failures and successes as they attempt to educate their kids after thousands of schools shut down amid coronavirus concerns.
Several hospitals have moved to ban visitors or birthing partners from hospitals due to the coronavirus outbreak. There are steps you can take to help relieve anxiety.
Officials have urged Americans to stop hoarding such supplies and to keep those who may not have the needs or ability to purchase such products in mind, but the unknowns about the ever-evolving situation are still driving thousands to the stores to stock up.
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses named after their appearance, a crown, said Dr. Mark Rupp, an infectious disease expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
COVID-19 is not the same as other coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans and cause mild illness, like the common cold. Some cause illness in people, and others, such as canine and feline coronaviruses, only infect animals. Rarely, animal coronaviruses that infect animals have emerged to infect people and can spread between people, which is suspected to have occurred for the virus that causes COVID-19.
The World Health Organization’s China office says it began receiving reports in late December of a mysterious virus behind a number of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in eastern China with a population of roughly 11 million people.
The prospect that a pair of malaria drugs will become go-to medications for treating COVID-19 before they have been rigorously tested is prompting new safety warnings from heart specialists and other doctors and experts.
President Donald Trump has touted the drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as a potential “game changer” for patients sickened by the novel coronavirus, and federal officials have asked pharmaceutical manufacturers to make their stocks of these drugs available for immediate use.
But as the medications begin pouring into hospital pharmacies and physicians begin prescribing them, their potential side effects are raising alerts.
An article published this week in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings warns that both drugs could prompt dangerous and potentially deadly heart arrhythmias in the 3 million people worldwide who have a congenital cardiac condition – called long QT syndrome – that can cause the heart to beat erratically and lead to sudden death.
In addition, millions of people in the U.S. take medications that prolong the heart’s “QT interval,” the span of time it takes the heart’s electrical system to recharge between beats.
Those people – including patients who take common antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs or any one of a wide range of antibiotics – are probably also at risk of developing a dangerously irregular heartbeat if they take one of the malaria drugs without being closely monitored by a doctor, the article’s authors said.
Roughly 13 per cent of Americans over the age of 12 take an antidepressant medication.
It’s not clear how many more Americans are “QT reactors” – people whose hearts respond to certain drugs with electrical changes that could trigger arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.
With potentially millions of patients taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, the unexpected appearance of these side effects in even a small percentage of them could spell disaster, said Michael Ackerman, a geneticist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who co-authored the new report.
“We will pay the piper for this tragic side effect, and we need to make sure we do everything possible to prevent treatment-related sudden death,” said Mr Ackerman, who treats and studies those with congenital heart conditions.
“We have the tools and we have the knowledge” to avoid sudden cardiac deaths among people treated with the malaria drugs, Mr Ackerman said.
But the medical community will need to be made more aware of this side effect.
He added that if these drugs are to be used safely, doctors will need to screen their patients carefully and devise a plan to monitor their heart rhythms after they’re sent home with the drug.
Meanwhile, a dispatch posted this week to MedPage Today, a blog and medical news service widely read by doctors, warned that chloroquine can cause hemolytic anaemia if administered to people with a common genetic condition called G6PD deficiency.
Hemolytic anaemia can lead to shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, and in severe cases, kidney failure and death.
“Chloroquine is not a harmless panacea for COVID-19,” wrote Dan Vick, a pathologist who teaches healthcare administration at Central Michigan University.
Its use is specifically discouraged in patients with G6PD deficiency.
The problem: Many of those patients never know they have G6PD until a new drug or dietary quirk triggers a crisis that prompts red blood cells to break down faster than they can be made.
The disorder affects between 10 per cent and 14 per cent of African American men in the U.S., and is common in people from the Mediterranean region, Africa and Asia.
Across the world, some 17 clinical trials are testing the safety and effectiveness of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19.
Two clinical trials in the U.S. aim to test whether hydroxycloroquine might prevent illness in U.S. healthcare workers or caregivers who have been exposed COVID-19 patients.
When medications are tested for use by healthy people who may become ill, regulators typically demand a high level of safety.
A recent review of research on chloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 concluded that “it seems to be effective in limiting the replication” of the novel coronavirus in laboratory dishes.
Clinical trials in humans and other primates, however, have tempered hopes.
Both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine failed to help patients infected with the dengue and chikungunya viruses, and it also failed to protect against the flu.
The Italian doctors who authored the review in the Journal of Critical Care added that “safety data and data from high-quality clinical trials are urgently needed.”
Meanwhile, the drugs, used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are also pouring into hospitals and pharmacies in the U.S. and around the world.
Trump has insisted there is “very strong evidence” to support his confidence in the malaria drugs as treatment for COVID-19.
“I feel good about it,” he said last week. “That’s all it is, just a feeling.”
The pharmaceutical giant Novartis has pledged a donation of 130 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine, and the generic manufacturer Teva announced it will donate 16 million tablets to hospitals across the United States.
The generic giant Mylan said it is restarting production of hydroxychloroquine at a manufacturing facility in West Virginia and could readily produce 50 million tablets.
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the payment of cash to “the most vulnerable” Nigerians in the next two months as the country battles the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The move, according to Buhari, was to ameliorate the sufferings of the vulnerable citizens amid the sit-at-home order and other restrictive measures put in place by the federal and state governments across the country.
The president revealed this in his nationwide broadcast on coronavirus which was aired on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
Buhari said, “I have directed that the conditional cash transfers for the next two months be paid immediately. Our Internally displaced persons will also receive two months of food rations in the coming weeks.
“We also call on all Nigerians to take personal responsibility to support those who are vulnerable within their communities, helping them with whatever they may need.”
The president also said he had directed that a three month repayment moratorium for all TraderMoni, MarketMoni and FarmerMoni loans be implemented with immediate effect.
He added, “I have also directed that a similar moratorium be given to all Federal Government funded loans issued by the Bank of Industry, Bank of Agriculture and the Nigeria Export Import Bank.
“For on-lending facilities using capital from international and multilateral development partners, I have directed our development financial institutions to engage these development partners and negotiate concessions to ease the pains of the borrowers,” he said.
In a letter dated March 25, 2020 and addressed to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Air France asked to airlift Europeans from the country on March 26, April 2 and 9.
The Nigerian Government has approved a request by Air France to fly its aircraft into Nigeria to evacuate European citizens following the outbreak and continued spread of Coronavirus in the country.
In a letter dated March 25, 2020 and addressed to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Air France asked to airlift Europeans from the country on March 26, April 2 and 9.
The letter reads, “Air France hereby submits its request to operate three essential flights on March 26, April 2 and 9, 2020 from Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
“These flights will not disembark any passengers or crew. It is only designed to ensure European citizens return to their homes.”
Acknowledging and approving the request, Director, Air Transport Management in the Federal Ministry of Aviation, M.S Noibi, said, “I am directed to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated March 23, 2020 and to convey the Honourable Minister of Aviation approval for your airline to operate essential flights from Lagos to Paris.
“I am further directed to inform you to undertake the operation strictly based on the protocol guiding this operation under COVID-19 as issued by the Nigerian Aeronautical Authorities.”
As a result of the approval, Air France has started airlifting Europeans out of Nigeria as Coronavirus cases continue to be on the rise in the country.
At the moment, Nigeria has 97 confirmed cases of the pandemic and one recorded death.
However, foreign diplomats have warned of a significant rise in the number of infected persons to around 10,000 in the coming days especially going by the poor handling of the situation by the Nigerian Government.
WASHINGTON, March 29 — A senior US scientist issued a cautious prediction today that the novel coronavirus could claim 100,000 to 200,000 lives in the United States.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who leads research into infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told CNN that models predicting a million or more deaths were “almost certainly off the chart.”
The World Health Organization says the number of new COVID-19 infections is now 17 times greater outside China than in it, with major outbreaks growing in South Korea, Italy and Iran; Jonathan Serrie reports from Atlanta.
Officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that global cooperation amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is essential to stem the spread of the coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases nears 100,000.
Officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that global cooperation amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is essential to stem the spread of the coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases nears 100,000.
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