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Leicester may face a new local lockdown after a surge of coronavirus cases in the city. It comes as a leading scientist advising the government has warned that the UK is "on a knife edge" with a rise in cases expected in the coming weeks. Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar, who's a member of the government's SAGE advisory committee, also told the BBC, he expects a second wave of infections in the winter. Leicester’s Mayor has said the authorities are not gathering the evidence needed to show where coronavirus infections are Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting from Health Correspondent Catherine Burns and Health Editor Hugh Pym. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

This is the fifth day during the pandemic that the number of daily coronavirus cases in Oregon has passed 200. PORTLAND, Ore — Health officials on Sunday announced 247 new and presumptive cases of COVID-19 in Oregon. This is the third day in a row and the fifth day during the pandemic that the state’s total daily numbers have surpassed 200. No new deaths associated with coronavirus were reported. The total number of coronavirus cases in Oregon is now 8,341. Here are the counties where the new cases were reported: Clackam...

Near the top of New York’s Museum Mile, north of the Cooper Hewitt, a gem from the Gilded Age, and the Guggenheim, itself a Frank-Lloyd-Wright-work-of-art, and the classical majesty of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sits the Museum of the City of New York. It, too, occupies a building of architectural distinction, a five-story, red brick and marble Georgian Colonial-Revival completed in 1932 and the home of the museum ever since. But it can be overlooked amid the star power of its cultural neighbors, even when it punches above its weight with expansive exhibitions like “New York at Its Core,” which examines the city’s history since 1609 or “Activist New York,” which reviews the city through the prism of social justice and political agitation. “If you had to pick one place to learn about...

19 additional COVID-19 deaths reported in Massachusetts, 224 new cases Updated: 5:36 PM EDT Jun 28, 2020 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported 19 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state Sunday, bringing the state's total to 8,060.In addition, state health officials reported 224 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 108,667.DPH recently began reporting both confirmed cases and probable cases. Of the new cases reported Sunday, 61 are probable. None of the newly reported deaths fell into the probable category.State health officials said the addition of probable cases and deaths is part of an effort to continu...

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Dr. Tom Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the recent surge in coronavirus cases across parts of the country is the result of the virus’s spreading, not increased testing, as President Donald Trump has argued. “As a doctor, a scientist, an epidemiologist, I can tell you with 100% certainty that in most states where you’re seeing an increase, it is a real increase,” Frieden told “Fox News Sunday.” He added: “It is not more tests. It is more spread of the virus. ... The numbers you’re seeing are just a tip of the iceberg of even more spread.” Trump said last week that he pushed administration officials to slow down testing to avoid the high numbers of confirmed infections. (White House officials claimed he was joking, but the preside...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Health officials say another 457 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Wisconsin. On Sunday, the Department of Health Services report showed out of 6,481 new test results, 7.1% came back positive. This is after two straight days of percentages above 5%. Sunday’s test results are the lowest amount of test results reported by the DHS since last Sunday, June 21, when 6,051 test results were returned. However, the percentage of tests which were positive that day was 4.6%. Wisconsin has now seen 27,743 total positive tests since the state began testing earlier this year, while another 521,747 have tested negative. The state didn’t report any new COVID-19 deaths Sunday, keeping the state’s death total at 777. Meanwhile, 239 people are hospitalized for COV...

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The 3M company, which makes valve masks for such occupations, illustrates on its website how they work: inhaled air is filtered through the fabric part of the mask, and hot, humid exhaled air goes out through the valve. The system may be what you want when tearing out a kitchen for remodeling, but the valve defeats the purpose when you’re trying to slow the spread of a virus. Public health experts have been recommending mask-wearing to prevent respiratory droplets from spreading into the air when you exhale, speak, cough or sneeze, and the valves allow those droplets through. Medical masks, you’ll notice, do not have valves. “Any mask that incorporates a one-way valve (typically a raised plastic cylinder about the size of a quarter on the front or side of the mask) that is designed to...