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Dr. Scott Miscovich of Premier Medical Group Hawaii said his team was brought in to Pearl City Nursing Home to test about 100 residents and 200 workers on Friday and Saturday. Four residents and two staff members tested positive for COVID-19. He said a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus late Thursday, who believed to have contracted it through a family member. According to Dr Miscovich, the employee hadn't been at work for a while but the administration acted quickly. "They brought all hands on deck," Dr. Miscovich said. "We had numerous meetings. They cooperated with all the testing events that we put up, they immediately followed through all the protocols that we were recommending when it came to setting up a true isolation zone, which I helped them design, moving those re...

The place that seemed like the last in the world capable of containing the virus – Dharavi slum in Mumbai – has been hailed as a success story by the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, writes Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi. Speaking recently about countries that had done well in the pandemic, Dr Ghebreyesus included Dharavi as an example of how, even where the outbreak was intense, it could be brought under control. “Even in Dharavi, a densely packed area in Mumbai, a strong focus on community engagement and the basics of testing, tracing, isolating and treating all those that are sick is key to breaking the chains of transmission and suppressing the virus,” he said. The largest slum in Asia at one point looked as though it might become a charnel house. A million peop...

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Health officials reported an additional four deaths and 404 new positive cases of the coronavirus in Tarrant County on Sunday. The deaths included a White Settlement man in his 70s and three Fort Worth residents — a woman in her 50s, a woman in her 60s and a man in his 70s. All had underlying health conditions. The new cases were reported in Arlington, Azle, Bedford, Benbrook, Blue Mound, Burleson, Colleyville, Dalworthington Gardens, Euless, Forest Hill, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Haltom City, Hurst, Keller, Kennedale, Lake Worth, Mansfield, North Richland Hills, Richland Hills, River Oaks, Saginaw, Southlake, Watauga, White Settlement and unincorporated Tarrant County. Between Wednesday and Saturday, the county saw an increase in the percentage of...