To fight just a little to bring back the fire in her eyes

The girl who was rescued after falling from the 12th floor of an apartment building in Hanoi has just been discharged from the hospital in good health. The girl who was rescued after falling from the 12th floor of an apartment building in Hanoi is discharged from the hospital on March 5 On Friday morning, the three-year-old girl waved her hands merrily to say goodbye to doctors at the Hanoi-based National Children's Hospital. Dr Hoang Hai Duc from the hospital said the girl has recovered well. "It is like a miracle that the baby did not have serious injuries after falling from the 12th floor," the doctor said. "She did not have a fever, coughing, breathing difficulties and her urinary tract functions normally. Her hip has been relocated and put in a cast. X-ray results were normal. The results of the CT scan of her brain revealed it was also normal." Doctors asked her parents to return with her after two or three weeks to recheck the hip. On March 4, … [Read more...] about Little girl discharged from hospital after recovering from 12th-floor balcony fall

Japanese supercomputer simulations showed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking viral spread compared with one properly fitted mask. The findings in part contradict recent recommendations from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that two masks were better than one at reducing a person’s exposure to the coronavirus. Researchers used the Fugaku supercomputer to model the flow of virus particles from people wearing different types and combinations of masks, according to a study released on Thursday by research giant Riken and Kobe University. Using a single surgical-type mask, made of non-woven material, had 85% effectiveness in blocking particles when worn tightly around the nose and face. Adding a polyurethane mask on top boosted the effectiveness to just 89%. Wearing two non-woven masks isn’t useful because air resistance builds up and causes leakage around the edges. “The performance of double masking simply does not add up,” wrote the … [Read more...] about Japan supercomputer shows doubling masks offers little help preventing viral spread

The intensity of COVID-19 has initially “cooled down” in many nations around the world after the vaccination campaign has been deployed on a large scale. However, in some EU member states the situation remains serious and the EU is struggling to overcome the third wave of the pandemic. Contrary to the trend of easing social distancing, Hungary, France and the Czech Republic are the European countries tending to tighten prevention and control measures as the number of infections has increased recently. Statistics show that, while most Western European countries have recorded a declining or stable number of cases, about 100-200 per one million people per day, the figure is at around 300 in France and more than 600 in the Czech Republic. French Health Minister Olivier Véran stated that in the next four to six weeks, France will maintain a nightly curfew and lockdown measures such as closing pubs, restaurants and museums, in a bid to protect the pandemic prevention and control efforts. … [Read more...] about A long-term challenge