People walk past a COVID-19 walk up testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images The Health and Human Services Department on Thursday laid out what will change and will remain the same when the three-year-long Covid public health emergency ends in May. Health […]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to press after 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hit southern provinces of Turkey, on February 07, 2023 in Ankara, Turkey. Mustafa Kamaci | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency in 10 of the country’s provinces Tuesday. Turkey, and neighboring […]
President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 30, 2023, that he intends to end both the national emergency and the public health emergency declarations related to COVID-19 on May 11, 2023. Biden’s announcement came on the same day that the World Health Organization said it still considers the COVID-19 pandemic to be a public health emergency […]
Emergency services have been spotted on the scene near GCHQ in Cheltenham this morning after a “suspected medical episode”. A white tent has been put up in the area as members of the fire, police and medical services all arrived on the scene. It has been reported by local police that the incident has involved a […]
A two-year old girl has died suddenly after a “medical emergency” in a house in a Welsh village near the Welsh-Gloucestershire border. Emegency services, including an air ambulance hurried to the house in the village of Pwllmeyric, Monmouthshire at around 8.20am on January 26. The girl was sadly pronounced dead at the scene on Chapel […]
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before receiving a second COVID-19 booster vaccination in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 30, 2022. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Biden administration plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring, which […]
Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends an ACANU briefing on global health issues, including COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland, December 14, 2022. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization on Monday said Covid-19 remains an global health emergency as the world enters the fourth […]
Newfoundland and Labrador’s House of Assembly will sit Monday for an emergency debate to enact legislation that would make private ambulance services essential in the province. In a statement released late Saturday afternoon, Premier Andrew Furey said the ongoing labour dispute between Teamsters Local 855 and private ambulance operator Fewer’s Ambulance Service Limited requires government to step in […]
A disabled teeanage girl was found in “shocking” conditions by paramedics, which left them feeling “physically sick”, a court has heard. Kaylea Titford, 16, weighed 22 stone at the time of her death in October 2020 when she was found “pale, cold” and “could not be woken”. Her father, Alun Titford is on trial charged […]
Large sections of a busy shopping centre have been cordoned off by police and protective screens have been put in place. Members of the public can’t access parts of the ground and first floor at Eastgate Shopping Centre in Basildon, Essex, while police probe the incident. Protective screens have been set up on the ground […]