Monthly Archives: April, 2020

Westport police said they will not take place in a program to test a "pandemic drone” that can monitor people’s temperatures from 190 feet away and detect sneezing, coughing and heart and breathing rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic after concerns were raised. Westport Police Chief Foti Koskinas said in a statement on Thursday that “after…

LIMA — Allen County saw two new deaths and 12 new cases of COVID-19 in results released at 2 p.m. Thursday by the Ohio Department of Health, bringing the county up to 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19.Putnam County also reported its third death, as well as 24 new cases, many related to the outbreak in…

first such documented fatality in the U.S.Dowd, 57, lived in San Jose, California, and was a manager at a semiconductor company. Before the Santa Clara County medical examiner determined through an autopsy that Dowd had COVID-19, the first documented coronavirus death in the United States was recorded in Kirkland, Washington, on Feb. 29. Santa Clara…

Carnegie Mellon University has been working with Facebook and Google to survey the U.S. population for symptoms of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Researchers are aggregating that data, plus more information coming from public health institutions, to come up with real-time indicators showing the spread of COVID-19 by state, county, and metropolitan area. This data will inform public…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the number of deaths caused by malaria in sub-Saharan Africa could double to 769,000, as efforts to tackle the disease face disruptions by the coronavirus pandemic. As of Thursday, the region had registered more than 26,000 cases of COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the…