London, Feb. 23, 2021 (AltAfrica)-In Tunisia, Violin, a stringed musical instrument has become a new innovation in medical therapy for the management of covid-19 patients, courtesy of one brilliant Dr. Mohamed Salah Siala When Dr. Mohamed Salah Siala began working on the COVID-19 front line in January in a Tunisian hospital he never imagined harnessing his ...

London, Jan. 18, 2018 (AltAfrica)-Nearly a third of COVID-19 patients who needed hospital treatment in Britain were readmitted within 140 days, a study suggests. Researchers studied 47,780 people who had been in hospital with coronavirus in hospitals in England and found evidence to suggest those who recovered from the virus had increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular ...

London, August 1, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The first of thousands of South African-designed ventilators rolled off a Cape Town assembly line on Friday, responding to requests from hospitals needing them for severe COVID-19 cases officials said. Poorly resourced hospitals across Africa, which is nearing a million cases of COVID-19 — more than half of them in South Africa — ...

London, June 17, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A coronavirus patient has reportedly committed suicide at a hospital in Upper Egypt on Tuesday, a security source told Ahram Online. The 53 year old patient was said to have jumped out of a window on the third floor of the hospital in Qena governorate The report noted that the patient’s ...

London, June 11, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Kenya has rolled guidelines to treat covid-19 patients at home same day 72 healthcare workers were confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19 according to the country’s Ministry of Health. Health Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman said Wednesday that it was becoming untenable to isolate all Covid-19 cases in hospitals. Dr ...

London, March 31, 2020 (AltAfrica)– Coronavirus patients with mild symptoms could still be contagious for up to eight days after getting better, experts have claimed. New research found that half of patients treated for mild Covid-19 still had the infection in their system a week after symptoms disappeared. READ ALSO: RWANDA FINES OVER 100 BUSINESSES FOR ...

London, March 16, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A team of Australian researchers say they’ve found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month. University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research director Professor David Paterson told READ ALSO: KENYANS ABANDON CASH FOR MOBILE MONEY FOR ...