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Concerns increase that kids spread virus
U.S. pupils are returning to college in person and online in the center of a pandemic, and the stakes for educators and families are climbing in the face of emerging research that shows children might be a risk for spreading the new coronavirus.
Several large studies have shown that the vast majority of children who contract COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, have milder illness than adults. And early reports didn't find strong evidence of children as important contributors to the lethal virus that has killed more than 780,000 people globally.
But more recent studies have started to demonstrate how contagious infected kids, even those with no symptoms, might be.
Grave position in revived South Korea epidemic
Novel coronavirus infections have spread nationally from a church in the South Korean capital, raising fears that one of the world's virus mitigation success stories could yet suffer a disastrous outbreak, a top health official said on Thursday.
"The reason we consider the recent situation seriously is since this particular transmission, which started to spread around a specific religious facility, is appearing nationwide through particular events," Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told a briefing.
The favorable examples from the rallies comprise people from nine different cities and states across the country. Kim failed to recognize those places but stated 114 facilities, such as the places of work of contaminated people, were facing danger of transmission.
Brazil sees signals spread is slowing
The spread of the coronavirus in Brazil might be about to impede down, the Health Ministry said, amid reports the transmission rate has dropped below a key level and early indications of a slow decline in the weekly totals of cases and fatalities.
The careful optimism comes despite amounts again showing a steady growth in the number of verified cases and death toll in the last 24 hours, cementing Brazil's status as the world's next most significant COVID-19 hot place after the usa.
According to ministry statistics, Brazil saw a drop in the number of new verified COVID-19 instances to 304,684 final week from a summit of 319,653 in the week ending July 25. The weekly death toll fell to 6,755 in the peak of 7,677 in the past week of July.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted the use of convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19 and suggested a reported decision by regulators to place on hold an emergency authorization for its usage might be politically motivated. "I've heard fantastic things about convalescent plasma," Trump told a briefing.
An emergency endorsement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its use of blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment was placed on hold over concerns the information backing it was too weak, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The FDA did not respond to a request for comment.
Individuals who endure an infectious disease such as COVID-19 are abandoned with blood plasma containing radicals that the body's immune system made to fight off a virus. This may be transfused into newly infected patients to try to assist recovery.
China backs Wuhan park following swimming party
Chinese country papers withdrew their support behind an entertainment park at the central city of Wuhan on Thursday after images of a densely packed pool party at the park moved viral overseas amid concerns about the spread of COVID-19.
Videos and photos of an electronic music festival in the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park on July 11 raised eyebrow overseas, but revealed life returning to normal from town where the virus causing COVID-19 was first detected, the official English-language China Daily newspaper said in a front-page narrative.
Concerns increase that kids spread virus
U.S. pupils are returning to college in person and online in the center of a pandemic, and the stakes for educators and families are climbing in the face of emerging research that shows children might be a risk for spreading the new coronavirus.
Several large studies have shown that the vast majority of children who contract COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, have milder illness than adults. And early reports didn't find strong evidence of children as important contributors to the lethal virus that has killed more than 780,000 people globally.
But more recent studies have started to demonstrate how contagious infected kids, even those with no symptoms, might be.
Grave position in revived South Korea epidemic
Novel coronavirus infections have spread nationally from a church in the South Korean capital, raising fears that one of the world's virus mitigation success stories could yet suffer a disastrous outbreak, a top health official said on Thursday.
"The reason we consider the recent situation seriously is since this particular transmission, which started to spread around a specific religious facility, is appearing nationwide through particular events," Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told a briefing.
The favorable examples from the rallies comprise people from nine different cities and states across the country. Kim failed to recognize those places but stated 114 facilities, such as the places of work of contaminated people, were facing danger of transmission.
Brazil sees signals spread is slowing
The spread of the coronavirus in Brazil might be about to impede down, the Health Ministry said, amid reports the transmission rate has dropped below a key level and early indications of a slow decline in the weekly totals of cases and fatalities.
The careful optimism comes despite amounts again showing a steady growth in the number of verified cases and death toll in the last 24 hours, cementing Brazil's status as the world's next most significant COVID-19 hot place after the usa.
According to ministry statistics, Brazil saw a drop in the number of new verified COVID-19 instances to 304,684 final week from a summit of 319,653 in the week ending July 25. The weekly death toll fell to 6,755 in the peak of 7,677 in the past week of July.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted the use of convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19 and suggested a reported decision by regulators to place on hold an emergency authorization for its usage might be politically motivated. "I've heard fantastic things about convalescent plasma," Trump told a briefing.
An emergency endorsement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its use of blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment was placed on hold over concerns the information backing it was too weak, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The FDA did not respond to a request for comment.
Individuals who endure an infectious disease such as COVID-19 are abandoned with blood plasma containing radicals that the body's immune system made to fight off a virus. This may be transfused into newly infected patients to try to assist recovery.
China backs Wuhan park following swimming party
Chinese country papers withdrew their support behind an entertainment park at the central city of Wuhan on Thursday after images of a densely packed pool party at the park moved viral overseas amid concerns about the spread of COVID-19.
Videos and photos of an electronic music festival in the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park on July 11 raised eyebrow overseas, but revealed life returning to normal from town where the virus causing COVID-19 was first detected, the official English-language China Daily newspaper said in a front-page narrative.