Welcome to weekends with alex witt. New alarm today. After a second patient has been positive in texas. The new patient is a Health Care Worker who helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the ebola patient who died last week. Procedures werent followed. Clearly, there was a breach in protocol. We have the ability to prevent the spread of ebola by carrying safety for patients. In dallas, texas, of course, with more on this breaking story. Tell us exactly what we know about this Health Care Worker who got infected, and who is it . Reporter well, alex, weve learned this Health Care Worker is a woman who in treating duncan had repeated close contact with him. Now, so far, shes not been able to identify specifically when this breach in protocol occur d occurred. She was 1 of 19 Health Care Workers being asked to selfmonitor signs or symptoms of possible exposure. She reported a fever on friday. Within 90 minutes, she was inside the hospital, in isolation and being tested. Those test results came b
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 17) The country s COVID-19 total cases exceeded 1.5 million on Saturday, the Department of Health reported.
The case bulletin stated that 6,040 more people caught the coronavirus, the first time that there were more than 6,000 cases in a day in over two weeks or after July 2. The total stood at 1,502,359.
Of the case count, 3.1% or 47,257 are active cases or currently ill with 91.8% having mild symptoms, 2.7% severe, 2% without symptoms, 1.89% in moderate condition and 1.6% critical condition.
The death toll climbed to 26,598 or 1.77% of the COVID-19 tally after 122 more people died. It is the second day in a row this week that the daily casualty count surpassed a hundred.