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COLOMBO (News 1st): The Ministry of Health has instructed all Hospital Directors to obtain Intensive Care Units (ICU) and wards reserved for general patients to treat the increasing number of COVID-19 patients, taking into account the spike in cases reported from all districts of the country, a top official at the Health Ministry said.
“All Hospital Directors, Provincial Health Directors and District Directors of Health Services were instructed to prepare the ICUs and wards reserved for general patients to treat COVID-19 cases,” Specialist Dr. Lal Panapitiya, the Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Health told News 1st on Friday (Apr. 30).
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 25April 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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both new Covid cases and US deaths attributed to the virus were lower during the past week. New Covid infections during the week ending April 24th were down 16.3% from during the week ending April 17th, and down 76.7% from the early January peak. US Covid deaths were down 2.0% from the prior week, and down 79.0% from the January peak. New infections in the states that had been leading the early spring surge, including Mi
Turkey Reports Over 49,400 New Coronavirus Cases
Country registers 343 fatalities, around 60,100 recoveries in past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data. Turkey on Friday reported over 49,400 new coronavirus cases, according to Health Ministry data.
A total of 49,438 cases, including 3,089 symptomatic patients, were confirmed across the country, the data showed.
Turkey s overall case tally is over 4.55 million, while the nationwide death toll reached 37,672, with 343 more fatalities over the past day.
As many as 60,176 more patients in the country won the battle against the virus, bringing the total number of recoveries approaching 3.9 million.More than 45.3 million coronavirus tests have been conducted in Turkey thus far, with 302,091 done since Thursday.