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Nearly half of Ontario’s ‘Covid-19 patients’ admitted for reasons unrelated to virus

Canadian province to start differentiate between coronavirus patients and Covid-19 positive patients admitted for other reasons Canada’s Ontario province has acknowledged that many of the people reported to be hospitalized with Covid-19 were actually admitted because of other health conditions and were incidentally found to be infected with the virus. Of the 3,220 people hospitalized […]

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New Zealand PM says hospital visitors should not have sex with patients during pandemic – or any other time

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made it clear that hospital visitors should not be having sex with patients after the country’s director-general of health called such activity “high-risk” due to Covid-19. During a coronavirus press conference on Thursday, Ardern was asked by a reporter about an “allegation of sexual relations between a patient […]