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WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 10 June 2020
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Although COVID-19 is giving us many reasons to grieve, today we’re also celebrating a public health victory. Yesterday, the World Trade Organization ruled that Australia’s laws on plain packaging for tobacco products are…
Cayman National Trust’s historic programmes receives assistance
June 10, 2020 – The National Trust for the Cayman Islands’ Historic Programme has received a boost as a result of the generosity of the DART Corporate Sponsorship Committee and the owners of the Great House condominiums, who have both…
Rotary Central Cayman Islands launches anti-speeding campaign
Rotary Central Cayman Islands will launch an anti-speeding campaign in response to an increase in speeding as lockdown restrictions ease and people return to driving on Cayman’s roads. The Slow Down Cayman campaign will highlight the human element of deaths and serious…
Social distancing may have prevented almost 5M US COVID-19 cases
By Lynn Allison From Newsmax Social distancing works, and a new study shows just how critical this anti-contagion measure is in helping to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The study revealed that if we didn’t practice social distancing in the United States,…
Study: People with type O blood less likely to test positive for coronavirus
By Marisa Herman From Newsmax By Marisa Herman From Newsmax If you have type O blood, you may be protected a little bit more than others from the coronavirus, according to preliminary results from a study. Fox News reports that early results…
US trial finds drug cuts coronavirus mortality 40%
By David A. Patten From Newsmax Preliminary findings released Tuesday for a U.S.-based clinical trial of anti-parasite drug ivermectin found that the mortality rate for coronavirus patients fell 40%, according to the Medrxiv.org site. The ivermectin study — it began in…
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AJ Albrecht: The Federal Government shouldn’t be trying to salvage our broken food system—we need a new one
by AJ Albrecht / Independent Media Institute Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals. The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on disturbing injustices in our food system—reaffirming the need for systemic change. Slaughterhouses (euphemistically…
COVID-19 Testing Update 10 June 2020 – 4 add positive results
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr John Lee, reports 649 COVID-19 tests which have been carried out since yesterday’s press conference. There are four positive results assumed to be locally acquired cases. These people are asymptomatic and were picked up through…
Cayman: HSA leads national response to COVID-19 with further expansion of testing capabilities
The Health Services Authority continues to lead the COVID-19 response as part of the Government’s national recovery plan with the further expansion of testing capabilities to include antibody testing and enhanced PCR capabilities with the new GeneXpert machine. The GeneXpert…
Cayman: Ombudsman PR – LAT case delays
A complaint filed by a Cayman resident who waited more than six months to have his employer’s appeal heard before the Labour Appeals Tribunal (LAT) has led to the discovery of nearly a dozen such appeal cases that have been…
