HANOI, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Vietnam’s capital on Monday extended COVID-19 restrictions for a further two weeks, as authorities launched a plan to test up to 1.5 million people for the coronavirus in higher-risk areas of the capital to contain a climb in infections. The Southeast Asian country dealt successfully with the virus for much of the pandemic, but the virulent Delta variant has proved more challenging in recent months. Hanoi, which has ordered people to stay at home and has halted all non-essential activities since July, has now divided the city into “red”, “orange” and “green” zones based on infection risk. “Accordingly, people in red areas must shelter in place and one person of every household there will be tested three times per week,” a statement from city authorities said, adding that in other zones people would be tested every five to seven days. Barricades on Monday separated red zones from other areas, photographs posted on social media and media outlets showed. Hanoi authorities expect up to 1.5 million test samples to be collected in the next week. The government is eager to keep the outbreak from reaching the intensity seen in Ho Chi Minh City. In the southern business hub, people have been encouraged to test themselves using antigen COVID-19 kits after health services were overwhelmed. Hanoi has been reporting on average 50 cases daily and has recorded over 4,000 cases since the pandemic began, official data showed. Although the numbers are still low, authorities are wary after the Delta variant has helped drive up infections across the country to over 524,000 cases. One third of Hanoi’s 8 million residents have been given at least one dose of a vaccine and on Sunday the health ministry called on the capital and Ho Chi Minh City to vaccinate all adult residents with at least one dose by Sept. 15. read more Vietnam has one of the lowest coronavirus vaccination rates in the region, with only 3.3% of its 98 million people fully vaccinated, and 15.4% with one shot. Editing by Ed Davies and Gerry Doyle Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. The post Vietnam’s capital ramps up testing after extending COVID-19 curbs appeared first on Medical News And Updates.
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Zuma, 79, has been serving a 15-month prison sentence since July for contempt of court after defying a summons to appear at an inquiry into corruption during his time in office.
“Medical parole placement for Mr Zuma means that he will complete the remainder of the sentence in the system of community corrections, whereby he must comply with a specific set of conditions and will be subjected to supervision until his sentence expires,” South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services (DCS) said in a statement on Sunday. The DCS said it was “impelled” to grant Zuma medical parole after receiving a medical report. “Apart from being terminally ill and physically incapacitated, inmates suffering from an illness that severely limits their daily activity or self-care can also be considered for medical parole,” the statement said. The DCS appealed to South Africans “to afford Mr Zuma dignity as he continues to receive medical treatment.”
Deadly violence erupted in South Africa in July after Zuma handed himself in to custody, triggering widespread protests and looting as soldiers and police struggled to restore order. It was some of the worst violence the country had seen in years.
Zuma’s successor, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, said the unrest was “instigated” and that that he would not allow “anarchy and mayhem to unfold in the country.” Zuma served as president from 2009 to 2018 and was once widely celebrated as a key figure in the country’s liberation movement. He spent 10 years in prison with anti-apartheid hero and former President Nelson Mandela.
But his nine years in power were marred with allegations of high-level corruption, which he has repeatedly denied.
Zuma is accused of corruption involving three businessmen close to him — brothers Atul, Ajay and Rajesh Gupta — and allowing them to influence government policy, including the hiring and firing of ministers to align with the family’s business interests. The Guptas deny wrongdoing but left South Africa after Zuma was ousted from the presidency. The post Jacob Zuma: Former South African President released from prison on medical parole appeared first on Medical News And Updates. Ninety-seven percent of small business owners won’t face an income tax increase if President Biden’s tax plan becomes law, according to a recent analysis from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The analysis looked exclusively at small businesses filing as S-corporations, partnerships and on individual income tax returns. The Treasury said nearly every small business falls into these categories and is thus not subject to a corporate tax. Instead, these businesses report income on the owner’s individual tax return and are taxed at individual income rates. Under Biden’s plan, the corporate tax rate would rise from 21 percent to 28 percent, and the top marginal individual income tax rate would be restored to 39.6 percent. These changes would affect less than 3 percent of small businesses, according to the analysis. The White House said the increased tax revenue would go toward investments in education, child care and fighting climate change. The administration’s full statement on the Treasury analysis can be found here. For its part, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes the tax hikes, saying there are 1.4 million small businesses that file as C-corporations and will have to pay a corporate tax. There are more than 30 million small businesses in the U.S., according to the Small Business Administration. The post Your Eyecare Business Is Unlikely to Pay Higher Income Taxes Under Biden: Treasury appeared first on Medical News And Updates.
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine received $300,000 for its new Centre for Social Accountability. The donation is from the McConnell Foundation, a private Canadian foundation that contributes to initiatives that address community resilience, reconciliation and climate change. The money will be used for the centre’s administrative startup as well as education and research dissemination. The Centre for Social Accountability’s core mandate is to improve the health of people living in Northern Ontario and will advocate about issues addressing inequitable health care in the North like poverty, water insecurity and climate change. “We thank the McConnell Foundation for supporting both the vision and the development of NOSM’s Centre for Social Accountability,” said Dr. Sarita Verma, NOSM dean, president and chief executive officer, in a news release this summer. “The centre will lead innovation in education and research on social accountability to improve health care delivery. Increasing our focus on Northern Ontario, we will address the unique social challenges and barriers to equitable health care that communities face.” The post Medical school’s new centre receives donation | Local News appeared first on Medical News And Updates. The recent spread of the highly contagious Delta variant has thrown back-to-school plans into disarray, temporarily driving tens of thousands of students back to virtual learning or pausing instruction altogether. Since the school year kicked off in late July, at least 1,000 schools across 31 states have closed because of Covid-19, according to Burbio, a Pelham, N.Y., data service that is monitoring school closures at 1,200 districts nationwide, including the 200 largest. The post Child Covid-19 Cases Rise in States Where Schools Opened Earliest appeared first on Medical News And Updates.
When Krispy Kreme arrived in Santa Fe in 2015, about 150 people camped outside the store the night before it opened to make sure they got their freshly made doughnuts. We should expect the same with cannabis once recreational sales begin in April, state officials say. Yes, there could be a shortage at first, they warn. But it will eventually level out and there will be plenty of cannabis for everyone, they say. “We believe that there is a possibility that some shops will sell high quantities in the first week of cannabis sales,” said Linda Trujillo, superintendent of the state Regulation and Licensing Department, which has opened a Cannabis Control Division to oversee the new industry. “But just like with Krispy Kreme, where they make more doughnuts the next day or hour after [the initial surge], we think there will be enough cannabis in the pipeline that there will be enough for the demand,” she said last month as her agency released rules for cannabis producers to follow. Days after the first producer applications made their way to the Cannabis Control Division, it may seem premature, even absurd, to worry about whether there will be enough cannabis to go around in April, when retailers are scheduled to start selling their product. But some major players in the state’s medical cannabis program are voicing concern. If there’s not enough cannabis on hand when sales begin, it could make it difficult for everyone, including the state’s roughly 121,000 medical cannabis patients, to get necessary product, they say. And if the state falls behind in its production capacities, it could take a long time to catch up. “The adult [recreational] program will introduce new demands and push us into a significant deficit of product immediately, from Day One,” said Duke Rodriguez, president and CEO of New Mexico Top Organics-Ultra Health, the state’s top medical cannabis company. That deficit, he added, “will continue to exacerbate.” Jason Greathouse, who co-founded Pecos Valley Production in Roswell, a medical cannabis farm, said he “absolutely” agrees with Rodriguez’s view. “We have a big facility ready to go [for recreational cannabis],” he said, “and even with our existing facilities, we won’t even have enough time to turn out enough.” “The timing is terrible,” he said of the timetable between the state approving rules last month and accepting applications and the expected turnaround of ample product by April 1. Elsewhere around the country, where the use of recreational cannabis has been legalized, long lines have formed outside cannabis shops on the first days of business. Nevada reported $3 million in sales in the first four days of selling legal cannabis in 2017, and Illinois reported $3.2 million in sales on the first day of sales in January 2020. In Illinois, where lawmakers only approved 30 producers to cultivate cannabis, shops sold an astounding $39.2 million in product statewide that January. The following month, that figure was around $35 million. In both states, shortages quickly became a reality. In Illinois, demand still outpaces supply, said Geoffrey Lawrence, a senior policy fellow with the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles-based think tank that studies the cannabis industry. States with cannabis shortages often owe their troubles to “legislators trying to rush the market into existence,” he said. “If you pass a bill and you want the effective date to be six or eight months from then, that requires a lot of legwork because it takes time for licenses to get built up.” In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Cannabis Regulation Act into law in April. She called for a special session in March to legalize cannabis after previous efforts failed. Under the law, producers can cultivate up to 8,000 plants per year and request an increase over the next two years, for a total of 10,000 plants. Supporters of the initiative applauded the fast-paced timeline while the Cannabis Control Division was created to oversee the program and set rules for producers, manufacturers, retailers and other businesses involved in the operation. Part of the challenge with the fast-approaching deadline, Rodriguez and others concerned about a shortage say, is the amount of time it takes to produce a full harvest of cannabis ready for sale. Rodriguez said even if the Cannabis Control Division approves the first wave of applications within 30 days or so, there’s still a lot of work for newcomers to the business to do. New applicants will need to invest in the required property and water rights, as well as security measures, to get going by that date, he said. Even if they are ready to go, assuming they are going to grow indoors, it’s going to take nearly half a year to produce their first full crop of ready-to-sell cannabis. A 2020 Colorado Department of Revenue report on cannabis growth said the average life cycle of cannabis harvesting is 125 days. That does not include additional time needed for curing, drying, testing and packaging, Rodriguez said. He and Lawrence said it’s not unrealistic to assume it takes five months or so to get a full harvest together. The harvest will be produced in waves as the plants mature, ensuring a steady supply for the state, Trujillo said. She said her agency will prioritize approving applications that came in early. Ben Lewinger, executive director of the New Mexico Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, applauded the state requirement that recreational cannabis producers set aside up to 25 percent of their product for medical patients. “There’s no way we don’t have some kind of supply constraint scenario,” Lewinger said. “That’s something every state has faced when they legalize. That’s why that piece in the law about reserving up to 25 percent of product for cannabis patients is so important.” Rodriguez said it’s not the percentage that counts, but the actual amount of cannabis being produced come April. “In those early months, medical sales will already be the preponderance of the total sales,” he wrote in an email. “The added adult sales will only get us to a shortage sooner, deeper and more prolonged.” Others said a shortage is inevitable and unlikely to cause any real problems. John Kagia, chief knowledge officer with the Washington, D.C.-based cannabis analytics and research firm New Frontier Data, has been studying the impact of legalized cannabis programs around the world. Based on his group’s analysis, legal cannabis users make up around 12 percent of a state’s population. Most states have no more than 2 percent of their population using medical cannabis. In New Mexico, the medical cannabis rate is closer to 6 percent, meaning a jump to twice that amount should not be so difficult to attain, he said. And recreational users relying on the black market are not likely to switch to the legal market right away, he said. In Colorado, where sales became legal in 2014, it took about four to five years for the legal cannabis market to overtake the illicit market, Kagia said. And by his group’s estimate, the Colorado legal trade is serving 80 percent of all users, meaning about a fifth are still relying on the illicit market, particularly if the product is cheaper. One potentially interesting run on New Mexico product could come from Texas residents willing to cross the state line to buy cannabis — much like some New Mexicans do now in Colorado. The cannabis tourism trade, he said, could impact initial sales. Greathouse said he expects 50 percent of his new clients to come from Texas once sales begin in the spring. In terms of offsetting any possible shortage, Rodriguez said the state could issue emergency provisions allowing producers to exceed the 8,000 to 10,000 cap. Lewinger said one option may be for legislators, when they meet in January, to postpone the retail date to give producers more time. “That could be part of the discussion,” he said. But he also thinks any shortage is not going to be a big deal in the long run. “In five years’ time, when we have a fully cannabis market, we’re going to realize a couple of months of being short on supply was not the worst thing that could happen,” he said. The post Regulators confident New Mexico can meet recreational cannabis demand | Local News appeared first on Medical News And Updates.
WASHINGTON: US pediatric Covid hospitalizations have surged since Delta became predominant, but a new study that offers a first look at the relevant data suggests that fears the variant causes more severe disease are unfounded.
The paper by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also found that between June 20 and July 31, 2021, unvaccinated adolescents were more than 10 times more likely to be hospitalized than those who were vaccinated. The health agency analyzed hospital records from across an area covering around 10 percent of the US population, between March 1, 2020 and August 14, 2021. This covered the period before the emergence of Delta, the most contagious strain to date, and after it became dominant, from June 20 onwards. Weekly hospitalizations of children aged 0-17 were at their lowest between June 12 and July 3, at 0.3 per 100,000, before rising to 1.4 per 100,000 in the week ending August 14 — a 4.7-fold increase. Pediatric hospitalizations reached their all-time peak of 1.5 per 100,000 in the week leading up to January 9, when the US experienced its winter wave that was driven by the Alpha variant. Consistent with prior research, children aged 12-17 and 0-4 are at higher risk of Covid hospitalization than those aged 5-11. After examining 3,116 hospital records from the period before Delta, and comparing them to 164 records during the Delta period, the percentage of children with severe indicators was found to not differ greatly. Specifically, the percent of hospitalized patients admitted to intensive care was 26.5 pre-Delta and 23.2 post; the percent placed on ventilators was 6.1 pre-Delta and 9.8 post; and the percent who died was 0.7 pre-Delta and 1.8 post. These differences did not rise to the level of statistical significance. The finding comes with the important caveat that because the number of hospitalizations in the post-Delta period is small, more data will need to accrue for scientists to gain greater confidence about the conclusion. The study also underscored vaccine effectiveness against pediatric Covid hospitalization during Delta. Between June 20 and July 31, among 68 adolescents hospitalized with Covid-19 whose vaccination status was known, 59 were unvaccinated, five were partly vaccinated, and four were fully vaccinated. This meant the unvaccinated were 10.1 times more likely to be hospitalized compared to vaccinated. A second study by the CDC examined childhood Covid cases, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits from June to August 2021, and compared them to the levels of community vaccination at the time. Covid-related pediatric (ages 0-17) emergency department visits and hospitalizations were 3.4 times higher and 3.7 times higher respectively in states that fell in the bottom quartile of overall vaccinated per capita, compared to states in the highest quartile. The takeaway message is that, while clinical trials for vaccines among those under the age of 12 and subsequent authorizations are awaited, high community rates of vaccination squelch Covid transmission and protect children. The post Study suggests Delta does not cause more severe childhood Covid, Health News, ET HealthWorld appeared first on Medical News And Updates. Dr. Bridgett Morrison, health officer for Greenbrier County, is “begging” people to wear a mask and get vaccinated, saying, “Our hospital is at capacity.” During a press conference on Friday just outside the front doors of the county health department offices in Rainelle, Morrison said that the unrelenting spike in Covid cases is hitting her county hard. Greenbrier County’s infection rate is among the highest in the state, having checked in at a rate of 110.04 cases per 100,000 on Friday, and then climbing higher on Saturday to 116.22. On Aug. 27, one week ago Friday, the county’s rate was 82.84. Just next door in Monroe County, the rate was 129.67 on Saturday. Morrison said that she was issuing “a desperate plea” for Greenbrier residents to come together and do what is best for the community. “Greenbrier County is so famous for standing up and doing the right thing,” she said. “Look at the flood of 2016. We stood up and we helped each other. Why can’t we do that now?” According to the Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), active cases in West Virginia climbed to 20,102 on Saturday, up from 15,663 one week ago and up from 3,108 one month ago. Hospitalizations in the state reached 709 on Saturday, still off the high of 818 last Jan. 5, but up from 52 on July 4. “So how does that affect everyone else?” Morrison said. “There might not be enough beds. And there may not be enough providers. “And that’s not just here locally.” Morrison urged people “to look at the statistics. Look at the hospitalizations. What you are seeing is Covid.” “I can tell you that as of this morning,” Morrison said, “the hospital count for Covid infections (in Greenbrier County) supercedes any that we had in the surge in the fall and winter.” She intimated that politics may be partly to blame. “Everyone wants to debate everything,” she said. “You can’t deny these facts,” she said. “This isn’t propaganda. This isn’t fear techniques. This isn’t fear tactics. This isn’t politics. “This is what we are seeing,” Morrison said. “It is objective data.” Morrison had taken her campaign to the county health department’s Facebook page on Thursday, writing, “Our hospital, regional hospitals, and all hospitals throughout the nation are at capacity. “This means that anyone involved in an accident or has a non-Covid-19 related emergency, in addition to Covid-19 infections, are going to suffer because there is not enough beds and/or providers available to provide proper care,” she wrote. At the Friday press conference, she said, “It’s not just Covid,” that hospitals are dealing with. “It’s heart attacks. It’s the trauma. It’s the strokes. It’s everything else.” Morrison is “strongly” recommending that everyone wear a mask while indoors, limit large gatherings, and get vaccinated. “As of today,” Morrison wrote on the department’s Facebook post, “we have had 159 breakthrough cases of people that are fully vaccinated resulting in only one death (over the age of 60). “There is no denying that the vaccines are working to prevent and/or lessen severity of illness. Please base your opinions on true science and evidence-based practice. “This is not a political statement or platform,” Morrison wrote. “This is strictly about public health and keeping each other safe.” She nailed the point again at the press conference. The efficacy of the vaccines and mask wearing are “proven,” she said. “People need to start looking at the stats, looking and following the science. You need to start following what is evidence-based and look at reputable sources.” Statewide Covid-19 cases jumped by more than 4,000 on Thursday and Friday, according to the DHHR. In Greenbrier County, the numbers are overwhelming the health department staff to the point that it cannot effectively trace infections. The same is true around the state, said State Health Officer Dr. Ayne Amjad during Gov. Jim Justice’s Covid-19 press briefing later on Friday. “West Virginia is experiencing high rates of community Covid transmission, and as a result it is putting strain resources on the health departments for contact tracing and case investigations,” Amjad said. Amjad, who also serves as commissioner of the DHHR Bureau for Public Health, said contact tracers will only contact someone if they test positive for the disease. “We’re not having enough staff to contact everyone who might be outside of your workforce and things like that,” Amjad said. “So if you’re positive, we want you to focus on your household and then we’re asking those people to think back the last two days and if they’ve been around people at work or some close contacts to contact those people for us.” Morrison is not ready to issue a mask mandate even though she said she knows that wearing masks “drastically reduces the spread of the virus.” “We are strongly encouraging, asking, begging in fact” people to wear a mask and get vaccinated. “We can make this a mandate. I can make this a mandate,” she said. “We don’t want to do that.” While the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Ronceverte has been at capacity “the last several days,” according to Morrison, she said Covid admissions are “at least 50 percent.” Of the 709 people hospitalized in the state for Covid, 216 are being treated in intensive care units (the record is 219 set on Jan. 5) and 112 are on ventilator-assisted breathing, up one from the previous record set the day before. The DHHR reported no Covid-related deaths on Saturday. The post Local hospitals reach capacity due to Covid | Health appeared first on Medical News And Updates. New York, NY, Sept. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Tech Industries Group, Inc. (OTCQB: GTII) (“GTII” or the “Company”), www.gtii-us.com, a Nevada corporation, announced today that it has formed a new subsidiary corporation, Global Tech Health, Inc., in the state of Nevada with the Secretary of State, on September 3, 2021. The new corporation was formed, in keeping with the particulars of GTII’s binding agreement with We SuperGreen Energy Corp, (“WSGE”), primarily to separate the various healthcare and eyecare subsidiaries and/or acquisition targets into their own operating group. David Reichman, CEO of GTII, commented, “We decided to move quickly to form this first of what may turn out to be several subsidiaries in order to pursue the more industry specific strategy that we’ve spoken of before. We chose the health services portfolio of businesses to start with as those businesses have been operating for several years and have reached a maturity that should allow them to operate more independently from us as the parent company. ” About Global Tech Industries Group, Inc.: GTII, a publicly traded Company incorporated in the state of Nevada, specializing in the pursuit of acquiring new and innovative technologies. 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Vancouver Public Schools officials confirmed on Friday that the Skyview High School, Alki Middle School and Chinook Elementary were put in lockdown after members of the far-right Proud Boys tried to gain access to school grounds, according to witnesses. Pat Nuzzo, communications director for the district, called the lockdown’s a “safety precaution.” “This is related to yesterday’s protest against Washington state’s requirement for staff and students to wear masks or face coverings in schools and on buses,” Nuzzo wrote to OPB. Patriot Prayer, a far-right group led by Southwest Washington’s Joey Gibson, and other far-right activists made posts online incorrectly claiming that a student at the school who did not want to wear a mask would face arrest if they entered school grounds. Parents of other students at Skyview joined the anti-mask protest, holding signs and calling for the student to be given a medical exemption to mask requirements. Nearby, teachers and students held signs supporting masks. One video posted online showed a group of people outside the school chanting “U-S-A.” Several people in the crowd were wearing black and yellow clothing of the Proud Boys, a far-right group best known for their participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection and for inciting violence during protests against anti-fascists. VPS school board president Kyle Sproul said locking down the schools was the proper decision to ensure student safety. “Regardless of one’s stance on mask mandates, I think most parents in our community agree that protesting at our school campuses and disrupting the school day is not in the best interest of students,” Sproul told OPB. The school went on lockdown after members of the Proud Boys attempted to escort the freshman seeking the medical exemption into the building. That student has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety, according to her mother, Megan Gabriel. She requested an exemption from the school’s mask mandate because she said the mask can trigger panic attacks. Gabriel told OPB she was willing to have her daughter come to school early, change classrooms before or after other students, and stay as separate as possible from other students to accommodate her daughter’s medical condition. Gabriel said the school would not exempt her daughter from the mandate. Gabriel’s daughter has only been to school one day since classes resumed this week, she said. “Yesterday, they locked her out of the building and I had no idea,” Gabriel said. “She was locked out of the building for an hour.” The demonstration itself at times became vitriolic. Security guards at the school said some of the protesting women called female students derogatory names. But Gabriel said she isn’t anti-mask or anti-vaccine. Her son wears a mask at school, she said, and she wears her mask when indoors.
Nuzzo said she couldn’t discuss specific students due to confidentiality laws but said Vancouver Public Schools is required to follow state health and safety measures, including mask mandates. “Some students qualify for a medical or disability mask accommodation,” Nuzzo said. “To provide accommodations, we work through a process with the student’s family to consider all necessary information including documentation from the health provider.” She did not say why Gabriel’s requested exemption was denied. Nuzzo said accommodations are available for mental health needs, and that Vancouver provides a fully remote learning option. One student told OPB that teachers and faculty at the schools guarded doors inside the building during the lockdown, while security guards addressed the Proud Boys. “All the learning gets disrupted. We have to sit down quietly, not make noise, and we were hunkered down in our classrooms for around an hour to an hour-and-a-half,” said Lucas, a 16-year-old high school student at Skyview. OPB is withholding Lucas’ last name to protect his identity. He compared the lockdown to school shooter drills. Lucas also said some students were harassed by the anti-mask demonstrators outside the school building. “They’ve gotten pretty wild out here recently. It’s kind of crazy,” Lucas said. Lucas and other students handed out masks at the school as a counterdemonstration to the far-right activists. The post 3 Vancouver schools placed on lockdown after Proud Boys try to enter during masks protest appeared first on Medical News And Updates. |
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