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Agence France-Presse Posted at  May 01 2020 09:43 PM A man walks with a mask on Westminster Bridge, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in London, Britain, on April 30, 2020.  Henry Nicholls, Reuters The death rate from coronavirus in England is more than twice as high among people in disadvantaged areas, according to official data published Friday. There were 55.1 deaths per 100,000 people involving coronavirus in the areas with the worst rankings for income, health, education and crime -- compared to 25.3 in the least-deprived areas, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). General mortality rates involving all causes of deaths, including COVID-19, were 88 percent higher in the most deprived areas than in the least. But when looking at the impact of deprivation on COVID-19 mortality, the rate in the most disadvantaged areas of England was 118 percent higher than in more well-off locations. "People living in more...

Kyodo News Posted at  May 01 2020 08:41 PM People wearing face masks visit the Forbidden City as it reopens on the first day of the 5-day Labor Day holiday following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Beijing, China, May 1, 2020.  Tingshu Wang, Reuters BEIJING - More than 117 million people are likely to make trips in China during the 5-day May Day holiday that started Friday, official media reported, amid lingering concern over a possible second wave of new coronavirus infections in the country. In Beijing, tourist destinations, such as the Palace Museum, known as the Forbidden City, have resumed their operations for the first time in around 3 months, as the number of new infections has been decreasing at home. But many tourist spots still have limited entry and offered pre-booking, indicating that Chinese citizens have remained cautious about the spread of the new coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease COVID-19. On Friday, visitors...

Agence France-Presse Posted at  May 01 2020 07:37 PM Hospital staff in protective garments walk at a checkpoint to the Hubei province exclusion zone in Jiangxi province, China on February 1, 2020. The banner reads: 'Committed to the fight to prevent and control the epidemic'.  Thomas Peter, Reuters GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Health Organization said Friday it hoped China would invite it to take part in its investigations into the animal origins of the novel coronavirus. "WHO would be keen to work with international partners and at the invitation of the Chinese government to participate in investigation around the animal origins," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told AFP in an email. He said the UN health agency understood there were a number of investigations underway in China "to better understand the source of the outbreak", but added that "WHO is not currently involved in the studies in China." Scientists believe the kil...

Eugene Hoshiko, AP Posted at  May 01 2020 07:09 PM A humanoid robot Pepper wearing a face mask greets Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike at the lobby of a hotel for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms during a media preview in Tokyo Friday. The robots will be stationed in hotels to provide support to patients under quarantine by reminding them to eat healthy and give them messages of support. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday he planned to extend a state of emergency beyond the scheduled end of May 6 because infections are spreading and hospitals are overburdened.

An appeal to governments in the time of COVID-19 by Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) and Lawyers Beyond Borders Network (LBB Network) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc worldwide. More than three (3) million people have already contracted the virus and more than 200,000 have already died. Their numbers continue to rise. Health systems and facilities are being overwhelmed by the large number of persons requiring medical and hospital care. Work on developing a vaccine is continuing, but it will still take some time. In order to arrest the spread of this deadly virus, governments across the globe have closed borders, enforced strict quarantine measures, and shut down virtually all economic and social activities. As a consequence, millions of workers have lost their jobs. In the midst of this pandemic, migrant workers, especially those who are undocumented, stood out as among the sectors most vulnerable to exclusion, stigma and discrimination. Migrant workers in the countries of ...

Agence France-Presse Posted at  Mar 31 2020 08:45 AM WASHINGTON - Researchers in the US and China reported Monday they have developed an artificial intelligence tool that is able to accurately predict which newly infected patients with the novel coronavirus go on to develop severe lung disease. Once deployed, the algorithm could assist doctors in making choices about where to prioritize care in resource-stretched health care systems, said Megan Coffee, a physician and professor at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine who co-authored a paper on the finding in the journal Computers, Materials & Continua. The tool discovered several surprising indicators that were most strongly predictive of who went on to develop so-called acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS), a severe complication of the COVID-19 illness that fills the lungs with fluid and kills around 50 percent of coronavirus patients who get it.  The team applied a machine learning ...

Agence France-Presse Posted at  Mar 31 2020 03:49 AM Harsh lockdowns aimed at halting the march of the coronavirus extended around the world on Monday as the death toll soared past 35,000 despite slivers of hope in stricken Italy and Spain. In a symbol of the scale of the challenge facing humanity, a US military medical ship sailed into New York to relieve the pressure on overwhelmed hospitals bracing for the peak of the pandemic. The tough measures that have confined some two-fifths of the globe's population to their homes extended further with Moscow and Lagos both joining the roll call of cities around the globe with eerily empty streets. The number of declared COVID-19 cases around the world topped 700,000, with 400,000 of those in Europe, while most of the confirmed deaths are also from the continent, according to an AFP tally. World leaders -- several of whom have themselves been stricken or forced into isolation -- are still grappling for ways to deal ...