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COVID-19: Official Information and Useful Health Tips

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WHO warns over virus immunity as global death toll nears 200,000

Today 06:20 am JST

By Gaël Branchereau

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The United Nations has joined world leaders to speed up development of a vaccine, but effective treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, are still far off.

But with signs the disease is peaking in the U.S. and Europe, governments are starting to ease restrictions, weighing the need for economic recovery against cautions that lifting them too soon risks a second wave of infections.

The WHO warned on Saturday that there was still no evidence that people who test positive for the new coronavirus and recover are immunized and protected against reinfection.

The warning came as some governments study measures such as "immunity passports" or documents for those who have recovered as one way to get people back to work after weeks of economic shutdown.

"There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from #COVID19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection," WHO said in a statement.

"People who assume that they are immune to a second infection because they have received a positive test result may ignore public health advice," it said.

 

 

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I wonder if it is wrong to receive food or items if friend/ relative leave it at the gate of a landed house without interaction with anyone in the household? Read through the covid act and cannot really get a answer there.

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35 minutes ago, Heartlander said:

I wonder if it is wrong to receive food or items if friend/ relative leave it at the gate of a landed house without interaction with anyone in the household? Read through the covid act and cannot really get a answer there.

That's what i have been doing, with mask on.

Hang it at the gate and drive off. No interaction but can hear loud "thank you!" from within the house. 

Can't possibly throw eggs and food stuff over the gate.

Zero physical interaction. Very safe distancing. Mask on. 

If its written somewhere say cannot, pls dun baotao me ok? 🤫😅

Take care and keep safe 

Cheers 

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20 minutes ago, PSP415 said:

That's what i have been doing, with mask on.

Hang it at the gate and drive off. No interaction but can hear loud "thank you!" from within the house. 

Can't possibly throw eggs and food stuff over the gate.

Zero physical interaction. Very safe distancing. Mask on. 

If its written somewhere say cannot, pls dun baotao me ok? 🤫😅

Take care and keep safe 

Cheers 

Was watching Channel 8 news last night reporting the volunteers, all with mask and face shield on, sending foods to those under-privileged, poor families and seniors living in the rented flat, they just hang the packages of foods on the door handle and they don’t come into contact with any one in house.

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Mysterious blood clots are COVID-19's latest lethal surprise

AFP News 28 April 2020

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According to Brosnahan, while thinners like Heparin are effective in some patients, they don't work for all patients because the clots are at times too small.

"There are too many microclots," she said. "We're not sure exactly where they are."

Autopsies have in fact shown some people's lungs filled with hundreds of microclots.

The arrival of a new mystery however helps solve a slightly older one.

Cecilia Mirant-Borde, an intensive care doctor at a military veterans hospital in Manhattan, told AFP that lungs filled with microclots helped explain why ventilators work poorly for patients with low blood oxygen.

Earlier in the pandemic doctors were treating these patients according to protocols developed for acute respiratory distress syndrome, sometimes known as "wet lung."

But in some cases, "it's not because the lungs are occupied with water" -- rather, it's that the microclotting is blocking circulation and blood is leaving the lungs with less oxygen than it should.

It has just been a little under five months since the virus emerged in Wuhan, China, and researchers are learning more about its impact every day.

"While we react surprised, we shouldn't be as surprised as we were. Viruses tend to do weird things," said Brosnahan.

While the dizzying array of complications may seem daunting, "it's possible there'll be one or a couple of unifying mechanisms that describe how this damage happens," she said.

"It's possible it's all the same thing, and that there'll be the same solution."

 

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Customers advised to bring NRIC to enter shopping malls, supermarkets: Enterprise Singapore

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SINGAPORE: Customers visiting shopping malls and supermarkets are advised to bring along their identification cards for entry, Enterprise Singapore said on Thursday (Apr 30).

In response to queries from CNA, the agency said many malls and supermarkets have already implemented temperature screening and contact tracing, and that the rest will do the same "in the next few days".

According to a Telegram and WhatsApp message sent out by the Government on Thursday morning, those intending to visit supermarkets, shopping malls or wet markets should bring their NRIC or other official photo identification with a barcode for scanning, such as a driving licence.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-bring-nric-supermarket-malls-entry-contact-tracing-12691114

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