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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The Kern County health officer has revoked public health's emergency order Saturday evening, according to the Kern County Public Health Services Department. The order was passed on April 2, which expanded the powers of county health officer Kirstopher Lyon, to assist shelter-in-place orders instituted by governor Gavin Newsom. "Over the past several…

by: Eytan Wallace Posted: May 2, 2020 / 07:43 PM PDT / Updated: May 2, 2020 / 08:38 PM PDT BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — An order from the Kern County Health Officer put in place last month over the coronavirus pandemic has been rescinded effective immediately, according to the Kern County Public Health Department. In a release…

A top health official said Friday that the U.S. was too slow in banning travel from Europe and that the delay in closing the nation’s borders to travel from the continent helped accelerate the coronavirus’s spread.“The extensive travel from Europe, once Europe was having outbreaks, really accelerated our importations and the rapid spread,” Anne Schuchat,…

carefully selected" for their knowledge in planning, execution and management of clinical cases and public response, News24 reported."They will be deployed in different provinces of the country in accordance with the strategic plans elaborated by the Department of Health," the Cuban Embassy in South Africa said.Cuban Health Specialists arrive in South Africa to support efforts…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said Sunday that the United States is “near the end of the beginning” of the coronavirus pandemic, but remained skeptical of Vice President Pence’s earlier assertion that the country…