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| COUNTRY | INFECTED CASES | DEATHS DUE TO VIRUS |
| CYPRUS | 878 | 15 |
A total of 95 coronavirus patients have been treated at the Eden Resort Wellness Rehabilitation Centre in Tersefanou during the last month, 32 of whom have been discharged.
Cyprus reported another five cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday from 2,062 tests that were carried out, taking the total since the outbreak to 883 (including 10 in the British Bases).
Two cases were identified from 97 tests carried out on contacts of known coronavirus cases in the context of tracking and tracing.
One more death was announced on Sunday along with xix new coronavirus cases, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 898, and the total death toll to 22, of which 16 are directly attributable to Covid-19.
A 73-year-old woman with serious underlying conditions died on Sunday. The cause of death was attributed to Covid-19. Of the 16 Covid deaths, 11 have been men and five women with an average age of 71.
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...snipCyprus is containing COVID-19 as it prepares for the next stage of lockdown on May 21 as only two new cases of coronavirus were confirmed on Sunday, both from testing via private initiative.
A total of 2,248 tests were carried out, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Two tested positive from 206 tests from tests done on private initiative. The total number of confirmed cases rose to 916, including 12 in the British Bases.
Cyprus recorded 918 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Cyprus reported 17 Coronavirus Deaths.
The four and a half-year-old boy treated for Kawasaki disease at Makarios hospital is doing well and is expected to be discharged within the next 24 hours, head of the pediatric clinic Avraam Elia said on Tuesday.
The boy underwent four coronavirus tests and has tested negative in all of them.
According to Elia, he is the third child with Kawasaki disease this year. One of the other patients tested positive for Covid-19, making his condition worse.
ACE inhibitors and ARBs are widely prescribed to patients with congestive heart failure, diabetes or kidney disease. The drugs account for billions of dollars in prescription sales worldwide.
“Our findings do not support the discontinuation of these drugs in COVID-19 patients,” said Adriaan Voors, a professor of cardiology at the University Medical Center (UMC) Groningen in The Netherlands, who co-led the study. The COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 4 million people worldwide and killed almost 277,000, according to a Reuters tally. Death and infection tolls point to men being more likely than women to contract the disease and to suffer severe or critical complications if they do.
Analysing thousands of men and women, Voors’ team measured ACE2 concentrations in blood samples taken from more than 3,500 heart failure patients from 11 European countries.
The study had started before the coronavirus pandemic, the researchers said, and so did not include patients with COVID-19.
But when other research began to point to ACE2 as key to the way the new coronavirus gets into cells, Voors and his team saw important overlaps with their study.
“When we found that one of the strongest biomarkers, ACE2, was much higher in men than in women, I realised that this had the potential to explain why men were more likely to die from COVID-19 than women,” said Iziah Sama, a doctor at UMC Groningen who co-led the study.
ACE2 is a receptor on the surface of cells which binds to the new coronavirus and allows it to enter and infect cells.
Sama and Voors noted that as well as in the lung, ACE2 is found in the heart, kidneys, in tissues lining blood vessels, and in particularly high levels in the testes.
They said its presence in the testes might partially explain higher ACE2 concentrations in men, and why men are more vulnerable to COVID-19.