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Jakarta, Jun 24 (EFE/EPA).- An Indonesian court sentenced Thursday a controversial Indonesian cleric to four years in prison for hiding his Covid-19 test result and putting the community at risk by holding a series of mass events.Three judges from the East Jakarta Court declared that Rizieq Shihab lied about his Covid-19 test results, which made the subsequent tracking of cases more complicated, reported the Kompas news channel.(Camera: MAST IRHAM)SHOT LIST: SUPPORTERS PROTEST AGAINST THE DETENTION OF CLERIC RIZIEQ SHIHAB IN EAST JAKARTA, INDONESIA.
Gizmodo reports San Francisco and Alameda counties in California have stopped using Verily to test for the novel coronavirus. Google's health-centered sister company launched a $55 million pilot COVID-19 testing program earlier this year to set up mobile and stationary test sites. However, Verily’s services weren’t geared towards filling the needs of communities especially vulnerable to the pandemic. Specifically, the services put people of color, those with low income, and the homeless at a disadvantage for using Verily's site and accessing test results. Another complaint was that Verily reserves the right to use collected data for 'commercial product research and development.' While Verily says strict privacy controls are in place, critics say the system may still violate federal health data privacy laws.
In the early days of the pandemic, the CDC said people should have two negative COVID-19 tests, 24 hours apart, before being around other people. Now, CDC guidelines say people aren't likely to be infectious 10 to 20 days after symptoms first began, regardless of test results. Also, before leaving isolation, people's symptoms should have improved and they should have gone 24 hours with no fever. President Donald Trump's physician released a memo Saturday that referenced 'advanced diagnostic tests' and stated Trump, effectively, was not contagious. However, the memo didn't fully describe those advanced diagnostic tests or their exact findings, or other vital signs, such as the president's oxygen levels.
A new, rapid, bedside test for COVID-19 delivers results in less than two hours. UPI reports a new study says such a quick turnaround means appropriate treatment can start earlier for those already hospitalized because of their symptoms. The standard COVID-19 test swabs the patient's nose and uses polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, technology. It typically takes over 20 hours to produce results. The longer patients have to wait for results, the longer COVID-19 positive patients remain in non-COVID wards. That furthers the spread of the disease. The British researchers say the point-of-care test was more than 99% accurate at correctly identifying those positive for the novel coronavirus.
Tegucigalpa, Aug 6 (EFE) .- The COVID-19 epidemic in Honduras continues to escalate as PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests are delayed, laboratories experience equipment shortages and medical personnel from at least one public hospital stopped work when they were owed two months' salary.According to medical sources, between 2,000 and 3,000 PCR tests are needed each day for greater clarity about the spread of the pandemic, but that count has not been possible in a country where COVID-19 exposed an old problem, its deficient health system. (Camera: URIEL GUDIEL)FOOTAGE SHOWS B-ROLL OF THE OUTSIDE OF SONIA DUBON'S RESTAURANT AND NOW FRUIT SHOP AND B-ROLL OF TEGUCIGALPA AMID THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. SOUNDBITES: SONIA DUBON (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION:"The economy has dropped and debts have increased; so, because of that, we improvised, we decided then to sell fruits and vegetables, and thank God it is working, I think that now it is what is being sold the most,"
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