Maryland health officials reported 536 new confirmed coronavirus cases and one more death Monday — the 10th straight day the number of deaths has remained in the single digits. The latest confirmed coronavirus victim was a woman in her 70s, according to state data. A total of 3,696 Marylanders now have died from COVID-19, the…
A Maryland man believes he may be one of the first people to be successfully vaccinated against the coronavirus after participating in a trial that has reported promising early results in producing antibodies, according to reports.David Rach, a graduate immunology student, was the first person to be injected in the trial at the University of…
Maryland health officials confirmed 848 new cases of the coronavirus and 43 more deaths due to the disease Tuesday as they opened a call center with hundreds of workers to contact those who have tested positive and those they may have infected. The idea behind so-called contact tracing is to break the chain of infection…
Maryland has confirmed 1,071 new cases of COVID-19 since Friday, officials announced Saturday morning, as the number of hospitalizations again declined. State officials also announced 38 more people died due to complications from the disease, bringing the state’s total to 2,130 fatalities. In addition, officials say, 113 people have probably died due to the disease…
Baltimore Sun | May 10, 2020 | 4:09 PM Maryland officials reported Sunday that the state has confirmed 1,053 new cases of the coronavirus. Officials said Maryland totaled 32,587 cases of COVID-19. Twenty-eight more people died due to complications from the illness since Saturday, bringing the state total up to 1,538 fatalities. UPDATE: The @MDHealthDept is…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…