The Latest: Fiji locks down hospital over coronavirus death
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NEW YORK Health experts are projecting the coronavirus toll in the U.S. will wane dramatically by the end of July.
That’s according to research released by the government Wednesday. But health experts also warn a “substantial increase” in hospitalizations and deaths is possible if unvaccinated people don’t follow basic public health guidelines, such as wearing a mask and social distancing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paper included projections from six different research groups.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky notes the variants of the coronavirus are a “wild card” that could set back progress.
BANGKOK (AP) â Health officials rushed to vaccinate thousands of people in Bangkok’s biggest slum on Wednesday as new COVID-19 cases spread through densely populated low-income areas in the capital’s central business district.
The government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha is facing mounting criticism for its handling of a surge that began in early April.
Thailand recorded 2,112 new cases and 15 deaths on Wednesday. The country has been reporting about 2,000 cases a day recently, often with double-digit deaths in the third mass outbreak since the pandemic started.
More than half of the 74,900 cases reported by the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration, or 46,037, have been confirmed since April 1. A total of 318 people are known to have died from the virus.
The Latest: Fiji locks down hospital over coronavirus death
LaGuardia Community College professor Lucia Fuentes teaches her honors biology class via videoconference from Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Fuentes assigned her students to create multilingual online brochures on the science of the coronavirus and vaccinations to help make the information more accessible. (Lorena Fuentes via AP) May 05, 2021 - 7:25 PM
WELLINGTON, New Zealand â Soldiers and police in the Pacific nation of Fiji have surrounded and locked down a major hospital.
Health authorities say they are quarantining 400 patients, doctors, nurses and other staff within the compound until they can determine who had contact with a coronavirus patient who died there.
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Parit Chiwarak, a jailed student leader of the Thai pro-democracy movement who has been on a weeks-long hunger strike, was sent to a hospital late Friday where he was being force fed through a tube, the corrections department said.
His mother, Sureerat Chiwarak, shaved her head in front of the Criminal Court building in Bangkok after judges again turned down her request that Parit, who is known as “Penguin,” be released on bail on humanitarian grounds. The court turned down a similar request on Thursday.
“Doctors and nurses were concerned that he could go into shock so they agreed that he should be admitted to a hospital outside prison to receive treatment from an expert doctor,” Thawatchai Chaiyawat, deputy director-general of the Department of Corrections, said in a Facebook post.