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Mammals

Jaguar guide: how to identify, where to see

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Jaguar guide: how to identify, where to see Jaguar Fact File: The Jaguar is the third-largest cat in the world and the largest in the Americas. Length-wise, they are 240cm in length and in shoulder height; they are 75cm. The Jaguar lives across South America and Central America. They are an endangered species and there are continuous efforts to save the 34 jaguar subpopulations. There are 64,000 jaguars in the Americas. There are 34 jaguar subpopulations, 25 of which are under threat. Eight of the 34 Jaguar subpopulations are in danger of extinction. Diet, Habitat and behaviour Jaguars diet include rodents, mammals and reptiles. Their diet includes deer, peccary, capybaras, crocodiles, tapirs, snakes, monkeys, deer, sloths, tapirs, turtles, eggs, frogs, and fish. Jaguars live in a wide range of habitats. This includes drier regions, dense swamplands, grassland, scrub, and forests. While other cats dislike swimming, the Jaguars are excellent swimmers. That is why jaguars lurk around rivers because of the abundance of prey. They can climb trees and ambush their prey. The Jaguars are a top-level carnivore. This means they keep the other species populations in check and fight with other smaller carnivores over prey. They like to live and hunt by themselves solitary animals, besides during mating season. The big cat hunts on the ground but also hunt in the trees and water. Other features of the Jaguar: Jaguars have similarities to leopards. However, you cannot get confused while in the wild as there are no other big cats in the Americas. The cougar is weaker compared to the jaguar and they are also different in appearance to the jaguars. Colour-wise, the jaguars are tan or orange and they have unique black spots called rosettes. There are jaguars that are black and at first glance, do not appear to have any spots. The spots on the black jaguars are visible on closer inspection. Unlike the leopard who has similar rosette-type spots, the jaguar’s spots have smaller spots inside them which make them distinguishable from the leopards. Jaguars have one of the most powerful bites out of all the big cats. They have powerful jaws that are potent enough to crack open a turtle’s shell or penetrate through the skull of their prey. Males defend territory ranging from 80-90sq.m. The only time they meet other jaguars, in particular the females, is if they are mating.  Breeding occurs often throughout the year and the females give birth to four cubs that become independent after two years. Conservation efforts and threats: International organisations like the Defenders, are pushing efforts to implement policies that include banning international trade of the jaguar. The organisation also is a sponsor of the 1st range states Jaguar workshop in Bolivia in 2019. In 2004, the renowned zoologist and former Panthera CEO Alan Rabinowitz proposed The Jaguar Corridor Initiative. The initiative to create a continuous north-to-south habitat corridor throughout the species’ range, enabling it to roam and breed. Defenders played a massive part in helping establish the Northern Jaguar Reserve in Sonora, Mexico, that aims at protecting the remaining Jaguar population in the north of Mexico. Other threats to the jaguar’s existence include palm oil expansion, isolation, Amazon fires, fragmentation of Jaguar habitats, and deforestation.       .                                        

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Ohio stay-at-home order -Coronavirus Pandemic

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Ohio stay-at-home order -The stay-at-home request has terminated and another request Stay-Safe-Ohio request is set up until May 29 in Ohio as indicated by a discharge conveyed by The Ohio Department of Health. “The adjustment in verbiage was deliberate,” Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said.”This speaks to progress to the following period of how we will live our lives.” Husted said the adjustment in a name for the request was done to show we have changed into another stage. The request will be supplanted as new advancements happen during the month, so Gov. Mike DeWine advised remaining attached to the May 29 date. DeWine held his evening public interview at 2 p.m.   The accompanying declarations were made: DeWine said people in general believing in their security is critical and impacting the choices he is making as the state revives. “I know some of you believe we’re not moving quick enough. Some believe we’re going to quick. We’re attempting to take care of business,” DeWine said. The state has a café warning gathering and barbershop/salon warning gathering that has started working. Ohio is likewise assembling bunches for libraries, travel/the travel industry, sports, open-air diversion, rec center, theater, childcare, grown-up childcare, and so on. Most recent STATE DATA: As of Friday evening, there are 18,743 cases in the state, 1,002 passings, and 3,634 hospitalizations, as indicated by the Ohio Department of Health. Ohio has an expected populace of around 11.7 million, evaluation records appear. The state’s drawn-out consideration offices have seen 17 percent of the absolute cases in Ohio. Of the state’s sure cases, 22% are from Ohio’s jails. At those penitentiaries, there has been an expansion in testing.   There have been 133,248 individuals tried for coronavirus in Ohio. In the state, 2,880 cases are social insurance laborers, which is 16 percent of the cases. It is essential to take note of the quantity of affirmed cases is definitely not a genuine impression of real cases in the state on account of the restricted measure of testing accessible. The expectation is that the quantity of cases will be increasingly precise due to the extension of the testing guidelines. Things you have to know today, Friday: Stage 1 of RestartOhio dispatches today with the resumption of all wellbeing methods that don’t require a short-term remain in a medical clinic. The dental specialists and veterinarians administrations can continue typical activities too. Wellbeing Commissioner Jeff Cooper, Public Health – Dayton and Montgomery County, said Thursday that organizations not in consistence with the state’s arrangement will be examined and given a restraining request if pertinent. In the wake of declaring the conveyance of 4.1 million bits of individual assurance gear (PPE) to human services offices, DeWine on Thursday said 1.1 million bits of PPE have been sent the most recent couple of weeks to the state jail framework, where a few detainees have tried positive. Additional TESTING CAPACITY: Ohio is planning to begin reasonably before long testing a greater amount of the overall population for coronavirus, DeWine said.   CONTACT TRACING: The capacity to follow cases (contact following) will become significant in light of the fact that testing limit will increment as the state revives, Cooper said. FACE COVERINGS: Employees will be required to wear face covers, yet PHDMC can’t authorize the request, Cooper stated, so managers must advance up and ensure representatives are wearing face covers – with the exception of the exemptions explained by the DeWine organization. GRADUATIONS: School locale and inhabitants are being solicited to conform to the soul from proposals gave by the state’s wellbeing and instruction divisions, which firmly recommend virtual graduation services as the most secure approach, Cooper said. PHDMC isn’t favoring or objecting any graduation plan, he stated, taking note of, “We have certainty our school locale will settle on the correct choices.” The state wellbeing office’s announcement on graduation services is on the PHDMC site at phdmc.org/coronavirusupdates Gifts FOR MASKS: The Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency is requesting that inhabitants give clean, cotton texture (ideally white, dim, or tan) for the creation of veils/face covers. If it’s not too much trouble drop off gave fabric, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., to the St. Vincent DePaul stacking dock, 945 S. Edwin C. Moses Blvd. The Montgomery County EMA has conveyed PPE to 232 associations all through the region. ASYMPTOMATIC PEOPLE: Michael Dohn, M.D., PHDMC clinical chief, said he is stressed over representatives at comfort stores who are being presented to many individuals who might be asymptomatic. Representatives and deals power laborers are being put in danger by individuals who don’t wear covers, he stated, in light of the fact that no one knows what number of asymptomatic people there are strolling near. COVID-19 ‘NOT MANMADE‘: President Trump said he didn’t see the Office of National Intelligence report, made open Friday, that finished up the coronavirus is “not artificial.” According to national reports, U.S. knowledge offices finished up the new coronavirus was “not artificial or hereditarily changed” yet said they are as yet analyzing whether the birthplaces of the pandemic follow to contact with tainted creatures or a mishap at a Chinese lab. The announcement originates from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the clearinghouse for the trap of U.S. spy organizations. Trump and his partners have kept on saying an irresistible malady lab in Wuhan, the focal point of the Chinese episode, was the wellspring of the worldwide pandemic. Banners AT HALF-STAFF: President Trump said he “wouldn’t see any problems with” having banners brought down to half-staff to imply national grieving for COVID-19 casualties.

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‘Hollywood’ on Netflix:Ryan Murphy’s Netflix epic is a hollow ode to showbiz

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‘Hollywood’ on Netflix:Ryan Murphy’s Netflix epic is a hollow ode to showbiz The accompanying story contains spoilers from the Netflix arrangement “Hollywood.” “Now and again I figure people in this town don’t generally comprehend the force they have,” says Darren Criss in the second scene of “Hollywood.” “Motion pictures don’t simply give us how the world is, they give us how the world can be.” The equivalent can be said of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s restricted arrangement, which debuted Friday on Netflix. Set during the 1940s, the show presents different on-screen characters, chiefs, operators and administrators and the fundamental predispositions they face across race, sex and sexuality. A few characters depend on genuine figures, others are unadulterated fiction. The show’s designed story lines fill in as wish satisfaction, while the more abnormal circumstances — regardless of whether referenced in passing or included for comic impact — are regularly evident. Episode 1: Did Golden Tip Gas really exist?   The primary scene sees hopeful specialists working at Golden Tip Gas, a help station run by Ernie (Dylan McDermott) that serves as a very good quality house of ill-repute. The foundation depends on Scotty Bowers, the U.S. Marine turned Hollywood pimp who worked out of a Hollywood Boulevard service station (total with an on location trailer). In his 2012 journal — later adjusted into a “fun, dishy, extraordinarily nostalgic” narrative — Bowers flaunted a customer list that included arranger Cole Porter and on-screen character Rock Hudson, both of whom additionally show up in “Hollywood.” Episode 1: Are Jack Castello and Archie Coleman based on real people?  However “Hollywood” includes various actuality based characters, Jack (David Corenswet) and Archie (Jeremy Pope), presented in the principal scene, aren’t among them. Nor are Raymond Ainsley (Darren Criss), Camille Washington (Laura Harrier), Claire Wood (Samara Weaving), Ellen Kincaid (Holland Taylor), Avis Amberg (Patti LuPone), Dick Samuels (Joe Mantello), Jeanne Crandall (Mira Sorvino) and Ace Amberg (Rob Reiner). Episode 1: How did Peg Entwistle die? Archie clarifies that his content is about “the young lady who hopped off the Hollywood Sign in light of the fact that the town wouldn’t acknowledge her.” He’s discussing Peg Entwistle, the British stage entertainer who moved to Los Angeles to take a stab at motion pictures. At the point when the fair haired, blue-peered toward confident discovered that she was trimmed out of “Thirteen Women,” her sole film credit, she kicked the bucket by self destruction at age 24 by hopping from the highest point of the H in “Hollywoodland.” (The note abandoned, remembered for the arrangement, is verbatim.) Her last hours are the subject of a short film; full length extends about her — revisionist or something else — have been reported however have failed to work out.   Episode 2: Did Anna May Wong lose a major role to a white actress? The second episode illustrates how the career of Anna May Wong — Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star, portrayed here by Michelle Krusiec — was derailed after she delivered a stellar screen test for the adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s “The Good Earth,” only to be offered the role of a concubine instead of the female lead, O-lan. “If you let me play O-lan, I’ll be very glad,” she told MGM then. “But you’re asking me — with Chinese blood — to do the only unsympathetic role in the picture, featuring an all-American cast portraying Chinese characters.” The top billing instead went to Luise Rainer, a white actress whose performance led to an Oscar win — her second, making her the first actress to win more than one Academy Award. Meanwhile, Wong retreated from the film industry, turning to television, travel and politics. She was readying her big-screen return in “Flower Drum Song” when she died in 1961, at the age of 56. Episode 2: Did Henry Willson sexually abuse his clients? In the arrangement, Jim Parsons plays the closeted operator who signs Rock Hudson in the wake of changing his name and driving him to take an interest in sexual acts. It’s actual: Willson, who assembled a rewarding vocation on transforming attractive questions into ultra-manly heartthrobs, was referred to around town as a “throwing sofa operator,” forcing hopeful ability into sexual connections in return for professional success. As precisely depicted in later scenes, Willson powers Hudson’s vocation through behaviour exercises, teeth fixing and employing muscle to compromise potential blackmailers. (An increasingly fun certainty: Parsons arranged Willson’s drag move scene himself.) Episode 3: Did George Cukor throw wild pool parties? Yes, the executive of “Supper at Eight,” “A Star Is Born” and “My Fair Lady” — whose homosexuality was a loosely held bit of information — held private Sunday evening pool parties at his six-section of land domain above Sunset Plaza. As Baroness d’Erlanger portrayed it, “Mr. Cukor has all these magnificent gatherings for women toward the evening. At that point at night devious men come around to eat the scraps!” Doing the setting equity in “Hollywood” required four shooting areas. Episode 3: Was Vivien Leigh mentally ill? After an intricate supper at Cukor’s, “Gone With the Wind” star Vivien Leigh (depicted by Katie McGuinness) reveals to Ernie that she and her significant other, entertainer Laurence Olivier, are becoming separated, and that she’s looking at the lead job in Tennessee Williams’ new play “A Streetcar Named Desire.” in actuality, she starts that job in front of an audience and onscreen — the last earned her a subsequent Oscar. In any case, her emotional episodes and sporadic on-set conduct gave her notoriety for being “troublesome” when, truly, she had bipolar disorder. Episode 4: Who was the first woman to lead a Hollywood studio? At the point when Reiner’s Ace Amberg endures a cardiovascular failure, his better half, LuPone’s Avis Amberg, takes over for him as the leader of the anecdotal Ace Studios. In actuality, something like this didn’t occur until 1980, when Sherry Lansing was named leader of twentieth Century Fox Productions, making her the main

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World

Washington state stay-at-home order – Coronavirus outbreak

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Washington state stay-at-home order: Inslee extends stay-at-home order through May 31, unveils 4-phase plan to reopen Washington   Gov. Jay Inslee declared on Friday that the statewide stay-at-home request set to lapse Monday was stretched out through May 31. During his Friday evening news meeting, Inslee said organizations would have the option to revive in four stages while changing physical separating measures. There will be at least three weeks between each stage, however, he said a few areas with lower quantities of cases and passings might have the option to open pieces of their economy sooner whenever affirmed by the Department of Health. Stage 1 High-chance populaces: Continue to remain at home, remain sound Outside: Some open-air diversion (chasing, angling, golf, drifting, climbing). Social affairs: None, drive-in otherworldly assistance with one family for each vehicle. Travel: Only fundamental travel. Business/Employers: Essential organizations open, existing development that meet settled upon standards, finishing, car deals, retail( check side get arranges just), vehicle washes, housecleaning, pet walkers. Stage 2 High-hazard populaces: Continue to remain at home, remain sound Open-air: All outside creation including less than 5 individuals outside your family unit (outdoors, sea shores, and so on. Social events: Gather without any than 5 individuals outside your family unit every week. Travel: Limited unnecessary travel inside the nearness of your home. Business/Employers: Remaining assembling, new development, in-home/local administrations (caretakers, housecleaning, and so on.), retail (In-store buys permitted with limitations), land, proficient administrations/office-based organizations (telecommuting remains emphatically supported), hair and nail salons/stylists, eateries <50% limit table size no bigger than 5. Stage 3 High-chance populaces: Continue to remain at home, remain sound Open-air: Outdoor gathering rec. sports exercises (5-50 individuals), recreational offices at <50% limit (open pools, and so forth.). Social events: Allow get-togethers without any than 50 individuals. Travel: Resume trivial travel. Business/Employers: cafés <75% limit/table size no bigger than 10, bars of <25% limit, cinemas at <50% limit, government (telecommuting remains emphatically supported), libraries, historical centers, all different business exercises not yet recorded aside from clubs and occasions with more noteworthy than 50 individuals. Stage 4 High-hazard populaces: Resume open associations, with physical separating Open-air: Resume all recreational movement. Social events: Allow get-togethers >50 individuals. Travel: Continue trivial travel. Business/Employers: Nightclubs, show settings, enormous games, continue unhindered staffing of worksites, however, keep on rehearsing physical removing and great cleanliness.   State authorities are taking a gander at a few measurements, running from the quantity of hospitalizations to the present transmission rate in King County to projections for increments in cases if social removing endeavors were finished today. The senator said testing is going to increase yet we are as yet observing such a large number of cases.   More About Covid” *COVID Prevention – (COVID-19)-Symptoms and Prevention *Covid-19 – Latest Coronavirus outbreak *Quarantine at home- guidance for close contacts *When will a coronavirus vaccine be ready?    Inslee said that while coronavirus passings and hospitalizations were declining in April, the numbers are not low enough to guarantee those numbers will keep on declining. There isn’t one number that can be utilized to settle on a choice about lifting the social removing orders, he included. “We are still not at the level that we can be sure that on the off chance that we discharge our social removing these numbers won’t start to go up too,” he said. The senator has kept up from the beginning that testing will be the way to reviving. The most recent statewide loss of life as detailed by the Department of Health had arrived at 824 passings among 14,637 affirmed coronavirus cases as of 11:59 p.m. Thursday. Here’s a breakdown of a portion of the districts with the most elevated aggregates: King County has 452 passings among 6,274 cases; Snohomish County has 109 passings among 2,453 cases, and Pierce County has 50 passings among 1,339 cases. Snap here to see where different districts in the state stand. Key coronavirus refreshes: There are at any rate 14,637 affirmed coronavirus cases with at any rate 824 passings in Washington, as indicated by the most recent Department of Health numbers as of 11:59 p.m. April 30. Some Washington occupants can apply for crisis money help, on the off chance that they aren’t qualified for different projects. The White House has discharged an 18-page bundle of rules to help states re-open organizations covered by the coronavirus episode. Individuals who have recouped from COVID-19 would now be able to give their plasma to possibly help build up a treatment for the infection. Learn in the event that you are qualified here and discover progressively out about the neighborhood place taking gifts here. All K-12 schools will remain truly shut for the rest of the school year. The state’s more than 1.2 million open and private K-12 understudies will proceed with separation learning until the finish of June. The state DOH and the CDC are suggesting the open wear basic, non-clinical fabric covers or face covers when out in the open spots where social removing may not be kept up. Figure out how to make your own veil here. Thinking about what is as yet open? Discover here. Data from nearby authorities Inslee declared in a Friday question and answer session that the stay-at-home request will stretch out through May 31 and the state will revive in four stages. Minutes after Inslee expanded the stay-at-home request, the city of Seattle said it will keep on working under its condition of common crisis. “Senator Inslee has driven our state in COVID-19 emergency by depending on science and information – broadening the Stay Home, Stay Healthy request and making a staged way to deal with reviving is basic to sparing lives and forestalling an exponential resurgence of the infection. While we have straightened the bend, spared lives and forestalled our social insurance frameworks from being overpowered, Seattle and King County has seen in any event 630 cases and 44 passings over the most recent five days. We need to recall that there are essentially

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Irrfan Khan: Legendary Indian Star loved by Hollywood

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Slumdog Millionaire Actor Irrfan Khan Dies Aged 53 Bollywood entertainer Irrfan Khan has kicked the bucket matured 53. Here biographer Aseem Chhabra outlines how the on-screen character likewise rose to get probably the greatest star in the West. In 2007 Irrfan came to New York to advance Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart, an examination concerning the hijacking and murder of the Wall Street Journal’s South Asia reporter Daniel Pearl. Amidst interviews with him and his co-stars, including Angelina Jolie, Irrfan pulled me aside and conversed with me in Hindi. He inquired as to whether anything was going on – if individuals remembered him and whether he got an opportunity to get more work in the West. A Mighty Heart was Irrfan’s subsequent universal venture. His first, Mira Nair’s The Namesake (2006) – a tale about Indian American migrants that was financed by a Hollywood studio – was all the while playing in certain films in New York and somewhere else. Tribute: Irrfan Khan Bollywood star’s malignant growth letter moves fans Khan: Bollywood is ‘unoriginal’ Truly, positively something was certainly occurring, I told Irrfan. I didn’t know about some other Bollywood entertainer who had two movies playing in US cinemas simultaneously. Furthermore, soon thereafter, Irrfan was back once more, assuming a little supporting job in Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited. Irrfan Khan was prepared as a theater entertainer in India’s esteemed National School of Drama, yet then battled functioning as a TV on-screen character. His first huge break was in British Indian movie producer Asif Kapadia’s film The Warrior (2001). The Bafta-winning film was introduced in films with underwriting from late movie producer Anthony Minghella. By 2007 Irrfan was at that point a star in Bollywood, India’s Hindi film industry. He didn’t need to take on ventures outside India, however, as an on-screen character, he was continually hoping to confront new difficulties. His enormous break came the following year – Danny Boyle’s unforeseen hit film, Slumdog Millionaire. Slumdog made for the time being stars of its young leads – Freida Pinto and Dev Patel. Be that as it may, it likewise opened up entryways for Irrfan. He figured out how to get a specialist and a chief in the US and there was no thinking back. Before long he landed first-class extends – The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), albeit a somewhat little job, Inferno (2016) and even Jurassic World (2015). There is a story Irrfan told the press while advancing Jurassic World. At the point when the first Jurassic Park opened in 1993, Irrfan was a battling TV entertainer in Bombay (presently Mumbai). He was unable to stand to purchase a pass to see the film. Somewhere in the range of 22 years after the fact he assumed a key job in an establishment film that proceeded to win $1.7bn (£1.4bn) around the world. Irrfan unexpectedly turned into the best Indian on-screen character to act in a Hollywood film. Be that as it may, in spite of other enormous ventures in the West – he assumed a key job in Ang Lee’s Life of Pi (2012) – Irrfan needed to settle on intense choices, regardless of whether to acknowledge huge Hollywood movies or to chip away at littler yet lofty ones in India. That issue emerged a couple of times. In 2015 he disapproved of chipping away at Ridley Scott’s The Martian, rather picking a beguiling romantic tale Piku, set in Delhi and Kolkata (Calcutta). “He was in two personalities about what to do, and he continued asking me,” Piku’s chief Shoojit Sircar revealed to me when I talked with him for the life story of Irrfan. “I was thinking, perhaps for him, who is Shoojit Sircar? He’s no one contrasted with a Hollywood executive.” Irrfan likewise disapproved of Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies (2008). What’s more, his greatest lament was passing up Christopher Nolan’s Intersteller (2014), in light of the fact that his littler India-based undertaking The Lunchbox was being taken shots simultaneously. This is an indication of the star Irrfan had become, particularly after Slumdog Millionaire. He could have come that way of A-rundown ventures, yet in 2018 he acted in his first American outside the box, a sweet little film called Puzzle where he played an erratic rich man, close by Kelly Macdonald. The world was simply opening up for Irrfan and he was in his mid-50s. At that point in the spring of 2018 he revealed he was experiencing a neuroendocrine tumor. Before long he left for London for treatment. In two years of battle and disease treatment, Irrfan had the option to finish one Hindi-language film Angrezi Medium (2020). There was so much guarantee, such a large number of more tasks to carry out. Luckily, he has abandoned a huge fortune trove of movies his fans can watch.

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World

Coronavirus: WHO defends coronavirus outbreak response

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The World Health Organization says it “didn’t waste time” responding to the coronavirus after facing criticism for its handling of the outbreak. Its head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO’s declaration of the virus as a world health emergency on 30 January gave “enough time for the remainder of the planet to respond”. At the time there have been only 82 cases outside China and no deaths. Today there are quite 3.2m cases and 234,000 deaths recorded worldwide. US President Donald Trump has said the WHO “really blew” its response and accused it of bias towards China. The US is that the global health body’s largest single funder and President Trump says he will halt funding. Speaking at a press conference on Friday Dr Tedros offered an active defence of how the organisation responded. He insisted the WHO used the time before the declaration wisely, including visiting China to find out more about the virus at its origin.   “More About Covid” *Covid Prevention – (COVID-19)-Symptoms and Prevention *Covid-19 – Latest Coronavirus outbreak *Quarantine at home- guidance for close contacts *When will a coronavirus vaccine be ready?    Dr Tedros confirmed that the pandemic remained a “public health emergency of international concern”, three months after it had been declared one. Such a declaration is formed under an “extraordinary” event and requires a worldwide response. Dr Tedros described “grave” worries over the potential impact of the virus because it accelerates in countries with weaker health systems. Officials said that they had seen worrying increases during a number of those nations – including Haiti, Somalia, and Sudan. The WHO also urged caution among nations relaxing their social distancing measures, stressing the importance of monitoring for brand spanking new jumps in infections as lockdowns are eased.     Ref-https://www.who.int/

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Health

How to Check Blood Pressure by Hand: Tips and More

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How to Check Blood Pressure – A person’s blood pressure is very important. It is a very serious indication of a person’s health. It is a part of the four major signs of health besides the heart rate, body temperature, and breath. All these w together show how healthy or otherwise a person is. Changes in any of these vital signs should not be taken with levity. It is most likely an indication of a health problem or a need for a shift in lifestyle and health choices. This is why it is always advised that you go for medical check-ups regularly to stay abreast of your health condition and to forestall any possible issue. The blood pressure, however, can be measured from the comfort of the home. It is quite an easy task to perform, but there might be problems with inaccurate measurements without the proper equipment. To measure blood pressure personally, what people use is the blood pressure cuff. The cuff, when used by individuals to check their blood pressure, depending on how the person manages the device, can have some margin of error. This error margin, however, is very important in the medical field, and it is why people are advised to go to a clinic for regular check-ups. Why measure blood pressure? Some people might wonder the justification for measuring the blood pressure. It is essential to check blood pressure regularly because it indicates the state of health of a person. It measures the amount of force placed on the vessels in the body by the blood. The reading of blood pressure has two parts, they are the systolic pressure (usually the upper number in the result). The systolic pressure measures the available pressure in the arteries while the heart contracts to pump blood. The second number that’s below on the reading is the diastolic pressure. The diastolic pressure measures the heart rests between each beat. Normal blood pressure is anything below 120/880 mm Hg. Any higher number usually means trouble for the heart and the overall physical health of the person. Checking the blood pressure will help you to ascertain if your blood level is okay, or if you have had high blood pressure. The high blood pressure can be caused by a lot of factors, and son of such factors include The build-up of plaque in the arteries, Stress, High level of cholesterol, Fear etc. Regular blood pressure check-up is pertinent. To check the blood pressure of an individual, the medical practitioners usually make use of the blood pressure machine. If you, however, prefer to do a personal and regular check-up for your B.P, you can always choose to help yourself with a cuff. How to manually check blood pressure Before you can do a manual check-up of your blood pressure at home without the help of an automated machine, you will need a stethoscope, a blood pressure cuff that has a squeezable balloon, an aneroid monitor with which you’ll read the measurement. Once all the needed equipment is in place, relax into a sitting position. Ensure your arm is well-rested on a table. Wrap the cuff around your bicep and gently squeeze the cuff’s balloon to increase pressure. Keep your eyes on the aneroid monitor. Increase the pressure of the cuff to about 30mm Hg over normal blood pressure. If you do not know the normal blood pressure, however, you can increase the pressure of the cuff to about 180mm Hg. Once the cuff becomes inflated, put the stethoscope inside the elbow grease, under the cuff. That done, deflate the balloon slowly while paying attention and listening thought the stethoscope. At the first beat, the number on the aneroid monitor is the Systolic pressure. Further, listen to the steady heartbeat sound until it stops. Check the number on your aneroid monitor this time. The value you see is the diastolic pressure, and together the two numbers give the reading of your blood pressure. Once you have the value, your blood pressure check is completed and you can record the value and discuss with your doctor for advice and guidance. Things to do and/or avoid when doing a manual blood pressure check Use the right size of blood pressure cuff for the most accurate readings. Ensure the cuff is directly on bare skin Take time out to relax before doing the blood pressure check. Do not talk while measuring your blood pressure Sit up straight with your feet flat on the floor during the exercise. Avoid cold rooms for blood pressure measurement Avoid smoking, drinking, or exercising for at least 30 minutes before a blood pressure measurement session. Etc. Doing all this will help to reduce the possible error margin by a great deal and helps you to make a more accurate measurement of your blood pressure.

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Coronavirus

What are coronaviruses?

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  A recent outbreak of a new type of coronavirus was recorded in the central city of Wuhan, in China. This outbreak of a new coronavirus has allegedly led to the death of over 200 people within Wuhan, China and has further been said to have infected over a thousand people in the City of Wuhan alone, and over 9,000 worldwide have been said to be infected with the new coronavirus outbreak. These happenings have led to the lockdown of 20 cities in China by the Chinese government, and a declaration of a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO). What are coronaviruses? Coronaviruses, as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO), are a family of viruses that causes sicknesses like the common cold and more serious illnesses like the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), to infected persons. These viruses originated from animals before humans came in contact with them and became infected. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) originated from civet cats, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was said to have originated from a particular type of camels. There are several of the coronaviruses that have not yet infected humans but very much circulating among animals. The coronaviruses were discovered for the first time in the 1960s. The name corona is gotten from the Latin word corona which means a crown or halo. When observed under a microscope, the virus looks like a solar corona. The viruses are spread just like any virus that causes cold. They can be spread and contacted via coughs and sneezes of an infected person, touching an infected person or anything that has been touched by them. These viruses are popular in the US and are more popular in winter and in fall seasons. The viruses have been contacted by almost everyone – children especially, at least once in their lifetime. The recent outbreak The recent outbreak of a new type of coronavirus in December of 2019, was identified by the Chinese government on the 7th of January and codenamed as 2019-nCoV. This new coronavirus, before now, has been known to infect only animals and humans. The 2019-nCoV type of the coronaviruses has, however, been confirmed as transmittable by a human to human contacts. This was what led to the Chines government locking down different Chinese cities, restricting movements, and have quarantined over 50 million people. The World Health Organization then declared a global health emergency to quickly address the outbreak. Experts have said that the new coronavirus outbreak might turn out to be less fatal than the other outbreaks like the SARS which killed 300 people in China alone (the outbreak started from China in 2002 and lasted from then until 2003). The SARS virus killed 800 people totally worldwide. In 2012, another outbreak, the MERS or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome broke out from Saudi Arabia in 2012, before breaking out in Asia, The middle east, Europe and Africa, resulting in the death of 860 people. Another MERS outbreak was recorded in  Korea in 2015 as the largest coronavirus outbreak outside of the Arabian Peninsula. This new 2019-nCoV coronavirus has most of its reported cases in China where it started from, and all the reported death case of the Virus has also been from China. However, the virus has been spread to many Asian countries and other places in Europe, the middle east, North America and Australia. With most of the cases in these places been reported from people who have recently travelled to China. Symptoms of the Coronaviruses Coronaviruses if not swiftly addressed can lead to serious consequences. The symptoms of the viruses can be easily mistaken for a common cold or other simple ailments, which allows it enough time to develop into a serious and escalated ailment or infection. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified some possible symptoms of the coronaviruses, and they include Fever and Cold, Short breaths, Cough, Severe acute respiratory syndrome, Pneumonia, Kidney failure, Breathing difficulty and other symptoms of a common cold. Coronaviruses might not get discovered on time. Their incubation period is not explicitly known, but some medical practitioners have pegged the virus’ incubation period at 10-14 days. Prevention and treatment of coronaviruses These coronaviruses, for now, do not have a specific technique or vaccine for combatting it or for preventing it. To protect yourself from contracting the virus, what you need to do is: Regularly wash your hands properly with soap and warm water. Imbibe the habit of having a hand sanitizer ready at every time to enable you to sanitise your hands regularly before and after touching things like coffee dispensers at work, doors, mobile phones and PCs and so on. Also, ensure you quickly sanitise your hands after coming in contact with other people, and avoid being too close to people with the infection. To treat coronavirus infection is mostly similar to treating a cold. What you need to do in case of infection is: Get adequate and proper rest time, Drink plenty of fluids, and Get over-the-counter medicine that cures cold and fever. Do not forget however that the safest best to ensure your safety is to visit a medical practitioner for proper and professional diagnosis and treatment for the coronavirus infection. This will help contain the infection early and stop it from getting escalated. Even though coronaviruses spread through the air at a very fast pace, the recorded death cases have shown that the viruses are not fatal, most especially if they are quickly attended to. The virus tends to be fatal more in children and aged people as well as people with a weak immune system. Healthy adults, on the other hand, have a very slim chance of the virus becoming fatal to their system. Once you visit your doctors for a regular medical check-up, and you quickly report any symptom of a common cold or other symptoms associated with the virus, you will be protected against

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Coronavirus continuous

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Coronavirus continuous to the threat to global health As per the latest updates over 113,000 people worldwide have already been infected by Coronavirus, resulting in more than 4000 deaths. Mainland China is still the most affected region in the world where the outbreak first emerged, but the rate of infection is significantly dropping in the country. Meanwhile, it continues to spread across the hundred countries. Some other countries like South Korea also reported slowdown in the virus speed. South Korea reported the least number of daily confirmed cases on Tuesday after carrying out a nationwide screening program test of more than 190000 people. Meanwhile, in other countries, Coronavirus continuous to the threat to global health, resulting in total lockdown in Italy and various states of Iran and Mongolia as well. More than 9000 confirmed cases, Italy becomes the second most affected region after China, which has reported over 80000 confirmed cases so far. The entire country some 60 million people in lockdown by the Italian government to contain the virus to tackle the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 463 people and affected more than 9,000.  Italy has now 9172 infected and 463 that with 733 severe cases. Also, the travel ban in imposed on all sort of arrivals from Italy as per latest instructions by Austria’s chancellor. Spain also reported 1622 cases and 30 deaths so far, which makes it the second most affected country in Europe just after Italy. Greece also lockdown at schools and universities nationwide for two weeks after 89 confirmed cases. Smoking of shisha in all cafes and restaurants in Qatar is also banned as a preventive measure against Coronavirus. Other countries like Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic close also close down its schools and put a temporary ban on all the events and gatherings of more than a hundred peoples. Coronavirus kills 54 individuals in Iran in a day, raising loss of life to more than 290, as Morocco affirms first death. Similarly, in the UK, another person has died from Coronavirus taking the tally up to 6 as the confirmed cases grow to 373, up from 319 the day before. All flights of British Airways are already cancelled to and from Italy after the country was put on lockdown until next month. Along with these, the United States also reported a massive increase in the number of cases where the virus is spread across 20 new States. The total number of cases in the United States are now more than 570, resulting in total deaths of 26. But according to the experts, the actual number of cases can be much more than reported because of lack of testing. Among the 35 patient tested in Washington nursing, 31 of them were found infected with the virus. New York’s senator reported a one-mile “containment zone” would be made in New Rochelle, constraining “major gathering spaces” to check the spread of the infection. New Jersey authorities announced the first death in the state from the Coronavirus. Trump’s new chief of staff Mark is also under self-quarantine for 14 days after coming in contact with an individual at CPAC who was tested positive for Coronavirus. According to US Vice president, he is not being tested for Coronavirus, and he said he is not sure about Trump. Also, the employees like Amazon and Boeing ask their employees to work from home in affected areas. Along with Amazon Microsoft and other companies offering more than $2.5M as a response fund. This will help recovering workers who cannot take sick leave people without health insurance and healthcare workers. Not only health crisis world is facing the worst economic crisis since the great recession of 2008. The virus is likely to cost the economy one trillion dollars during this year. Oil prices are dropped about 25% (there worst since 1991) in New York, and London down stock markets in Europe and Asia. in your trading was briefly suspending after stocks for 1800 points within few minutes. Meanwhile, China seems to have passed the peak of the crisis, and it is returning to stability. Japan announced the second package of measures worth about $4bn in spending to subsist with the fallout, focusing on providing support to small and mid-sized firms, amid mounting concerns about the fragile economy.

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“Coronavirus Vs. nature”

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  Introduction As the coronavirus epidemic is wide spreading, many are worried about the end of this equation. There are questions about what and when something puts a stop to this virus. Many are waiting for the scientist to come up with a vaccine or treatment. While others are thinking about wondering if nature helps to emulate the Corona virus epidemic. The common belief is that there wiil be a medical cure; a medicine discovery that could help the virus outbreak like many other cases of flu spreads. Is it possible that a rise in temperature can stop this epidemic? Let’s have a closer look at the virus itself, its transition mode, and other aspects which finally can help us conclude of nature will come to our help;   Spreading of coronavirus This virus has nothing to do with air transmission. Breathing the droplets present in the air can cause infection in another person. That means touching the affected surface, eating contaminated food and similar mode of transmission is =the medium for this disease to move body to body and get epidemic. Some of the experts also believe that there is a link between the virus and cold-weather gatherings. They claim that due to cold weather, people are less likely to be in the open air and fresh air flow; they seem to bundle up together in smaller places around the heating sources. Although is this really the case?   The relation between coronavirus and winter There is evidence that coronavirus is not all epidemic in the winter. It is mentioned that the coronavirus is a general term; it refers to a large group of viruses that have some similarities to each other, hence the name. For instance, in the year 2002 to 2003, there was an epidemic that went viral among the people. This outbreak of the coronavirus took place in the middle east. Many people were affected by mild to chronic conditions; while many others lost their lives to this virus. However, this close relative of the novel coronavirus of the year 2019, did not depend on whether changes greatly. This outbreak was as strong as the winter duration. Ultimately, it was controlled by finding a medical cure.   The relation between COVID-19 and winter The novel, coronavirus of 2019, seems to be relevant to the cold hemisphere. Here are two main reasons why experts may think the cold weather has effects on this epidemic outbreak; The start of the outbreak The starting point of this outbreak was at the beginning of the cold spells in china. By the weather changes, it was a sudden boom of the viral infection among the people.   The colder hemisphere While we are going through the winter phase in this time of the years, we seem to be more prone to this virus compared with the southern hemisphere. Cold weather helps to decrease the immunity system and natural defense of the body; making a suitable environment in the host for getting affected with potential virus exposure. In a very similar manner, like the normal flue. Many experts have detected the person to person affective method transmission from this virus. That is the reason they believe lower temperatures are helping the epidemic viral infection.     North hemisphere v. south hemisphere According to these theories, the southern hemisphere will be the next place for the epidemic breakout. This prediction is based on the pathological pattern of the corona virus itself. That is the reason the health experts believe that there may be valid reasons to expect coronavirus in the following months. The basic idea is that by moving ahead in time, the northern part of the earth is getting warmer while the southern parts in facing the winter months afoot. Many of experts believe there must be some preparations accordingly.     Conclusion While there are many theories involved with the modes of transfer and uncalculated factors that affect the epidemic outbreak, public health officials are trying their best to be prepared for unexpected further changes. This policy is not solely about the southern hemisphere; the northern part is also on the watch. This situation is nothing to be taken casually. It has serious consequences and may simply turn to an extreme and out-of-control situation.  

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