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U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS During the Government House weekly press briefing on Monday, September 27

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Governor Albert Bryan Jr. has issued a 28thSupplemental Executive Order regarding the COVID-19 pandemic that extends the moratorium on evictions until December 31, 2021; removing restrictions on the number of persons who can attend a funeral; clarifying the existing language to the sports section without amending the current rules; and suspending vehicle inspections for private vehicles until March 15, 2022.

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Governor Albert Bryan Jr. met virtually via Teams on Monday with Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Adrianne Todman and discussed a number of topics regarding a variety of housing issues in the Territory.

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The EU complements national health policies by supporting local EU governments to achieve common objectives, pool resources and overcome shared challenges. In addition to formulating EU-wide laws and standards for health products and services, it also provides funding for health projects across the EU.

EU health policy focuses on protecting and improving health, giving equal access to modern and efficient healthcare for all Europeans, and coordinating any serious health threats involving more than one EU country. Disease prevention and response play a big part in the EUs public health focus. Prevention touches many areas such as vaccination, fighting antimicrobial resistance, actions against cancer and responsible food labelling.

Two dedicated agencies support national governments on health issues. The European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control assesses and monitors emerging disease threats to coordinate responses. Meanwhile, the European Medicines Agency manages the scientific assessment of all EU medicines quality, safety and efficiency.

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The Health app was created to help organize your important health information and make it easy to access in a central and secure place. With the release of iOS 15, were adding features to empower you even more. There are new ways to share data with your loved ones and healthcare team, a metric to assess your walking steadiness and risk of falling, and trend analysis to help you understand changes in yourhealth.

Health puts your important information at your fingertips, including your health records, labs, activity, sleep, and more.

It collects data from your iPhone, the built-in sensors on your Apple Watch, compatible medical devices, and apps that use HealthKit.

The Health app is built to keep your data secure and protect your privacy. Your data stays on your device and is encrypted. And you are always in control of your health information.

Having a second set of eyes on your health data can give you peace of mind. With new sharing features, the Health app lets you do just that by offering powerful new ways to stay connected to your loved ones and provide useful information to doctors.

Whether its with a family member or a caregiver, health sharing lets you share any information stored in the Health app. So its easy for them to see things like mobility, activity data, and trends.

You can receive important notifications about your loved ones health and view things like their activity, mobility data, heart rate data, and trends in the Sharing tab.

Youll get notifications for any significant changes that are identified in shared data categories, such as a steep decline in activity, as well as gradual trends like an improvement in blood pressure. You can also receive the same alerts as a loved one, such as heart rate and irregular rhythm notifications.

When you share your information, you have complete control over what you share and the people and institutions you share with. And you can make changes at any time.

To help you have more meaningful discussions with your healthcare team, now you can share health data including activity data, heart data, cycle tracking data, heart health notifications, and falls.

Sharing data from the Health app can lead to richer, better-informed conversations with your doctor and healthcare team. For example, if youre concerned about a particular area of your health, you can share data from that category along with information from your everyday life, like your activity and heart data.

Using their own health records system, your healthcare team can review the data that you share. Access to this information can help doctors have a more holistic view of your health.

The more informed you are about your health, the more empowered you are to take action. The Health app helps you make sense of your health data. So you can see everything from how active you are to how much sleep youre getting, and do whats best for you.

Highlights uses machine learning to serve up what matters most to you, like your steps, sleep, orvitals.

Interactive charts let you view your health data over time and dive in for a deeper look. For example, you can review your exercise activity for a day, week, or month or see your heart rate during a specific workout.

New advanced trend analysis lets you see how health metrics like blood glucose, heart rate, and respiratory rate change over time. And you can get notifications when new trends are detected.

Prioritize your sleep by managing your sleep schedule, creating a bedtime routine, and seeing how consistently youre meeting your sleep goals.

With an Apple Watch, you can track metrics from your sleep like blood oxygen levels, heart rate, time asleep, and now sleeping respiratory rate.1

The Health app can incorporate data from tens of thousands of third-party apps that are designed to promote healthier habits everything from nutrition to meditation to fitness.

The Health app can give you app recommendations for health categories that interest you. Data collected from apps is stored alongside data from your Apple Watch and information youve logged directly on your iPhone. Everything is built to keep your data secure and protect your privacy.

The sensors in your Apple Watch and iPhone capture data that reveals mobility metrics like walking asymmetry to give you a better overall view of your health.

In the Health app, you can view your low-range cardio fitness level, walking speed, how fast you climb and descend stairs, and an estimate of your six-minute walk test, giving you easy access to these important health metrics.

Walking Steadiness is a metric that assesses your balance, strength, and gait. Now you can get notifications if your walking steadiness is low or very low and youre at an increased risk of falling.

Traditional methods of assessing balance, stability, and risk of falling include a questionnaire and a visit to a specialty clinic. Now you can get an assessment of your walking steadiness as OK, low, or very low just by carrying your iPhone. And you can get recommendations for exercises that help improve your walking steadiness.

Cycle Tracking lets you log your period, record symptoms like cramps, and track cycle factors like lactation. It can also help predict when your next period or fertility window will begin.2

The Health app creates simple graphical charts so you can quickly review cycle length and variation. It also now uses heart rate data from Apple Watch to improve its predictions.

Your body is a complex system. The Health app helps make understanding it a bit simpler. With it you can organize and access a vast array of health records including allergies, labs, and immunizations and sort through it all with ease.

View a timeline of your health history that includes lab results, immunizations, and medications, even if the data is from different health institutions.

To help you understand and manage your lab results, you can receive highlights, get context for results, and pin labs that matter most to you.

For the most common labs, youll see information that gives you more context, like what an acronym means, what the lab measures, and how the lab result broadly applies to health. Highlights show how your lab results have changed and if they are within expected ranges.

Institutions will be able to issue verifiable lab results and immunization records, including COVID-19 test results and vaccinations, that can be downloaded and stored in the Health app.

You can securely share verifiable immunizations and lab results with apps to facilitate flights, workplace screenings, event screenings, and more.

Create an emergency Medical ID card that allows first responders to access your critical medical information from the Lock Screen.

A single organ donor can save as many as eight lives. Make an impact by signing up for the Donate Life America registry directly from the Healthapp.

As we introduce and expand ways to share your health data, privacy continues to be at the core. All of our health features are built to keep your data secure and protect your privacy. Your health data stays on your device and is encrypted. And you are always in control.

The Health app lets you keep all your health information securely in one place on your device.

When your phone is locked with a passcode, all your health and fitness data in the Health app other than your Medical ID is encrypted. Your health data stays up to date across all your devices automatically using iCloud, where it is encrypted while in transit and at rest. Apps that access HealthKit are required to have a privacy policy, so be sure to review these policies before providing apps with access to your health and fitness data.

You decide which information is in the Health app, which apps can access your data, and who you share your data with. Apple never sees your data.

Apple Watch and iPhone are ushering in a new era of health research.You can contribute to groundbreaking studies by sharing health data.

Sleeping Respiratory Rate feature measurements are not intended for medical use, including self-diagnosis or consultation with a doctor, and are only designed for general fitness and wellnesspurposes.

The Cycle Tracking app and predicted fertile windows should not be used as a form of birth control or to support conception. Data from the Cycle Tracking app should not be used to diagnose a health condition.

Features are subject to change. Some features, applications, and services may not be available in all regions or all languages.

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The latest COVID-19 news and resources, as well as tips to protect you and your family.

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of children and their families across the globe. UNICEF is working with experts to promote facts over fear, bringing reliable guidance to parents, caregivers and educators, and partnering with front-line responders to ensure they have the information and resources they need to keep children healthy and learning.

Resources for policymakers and practitioners

COVID-19 vaccines can help end the pandemic. But its essential that everyone has access to them

UNICEF welcomes G7 leaders commitments to donate COVID vaccine doses, calls for accelerated timetable

Vaccinating the world against a virus: What it will take

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Together we must REIMAGINE a fairer world for every child

UNICEF is working with health experts around the clock to provide tips and guidance for families on everything fromhow to talk to children about COVID-19, tohow to wash your hands properly, toadvice for teenagers on how to protect their mental health.

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As the number of COVID-19 cases soars, so do the needs of children and their families. From delivering life-saving health supplies, to building water and hygiene facilities, to keeping girls and boys connected to education and protection, UNICEF is working to slow the spread of COVID-19 and minimize its impact on children worldwide.

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BMJs covid-19 hub supports health professionals and researchers with practical guidance, online CPD courses, as well as the latest news, comment, and research from BMJ. The content is free to access and updated daily.

BMJ Best Practice provides theory, diagnosis, management, follow up

Effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines on covid-19 related symptoms, hospital admissions, and mortality in older adults in England

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Covid-19: Indias crisis is everyones crisis

Covid-19: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is likely responsible for deaths of some elderly patients, Norwegian review finds

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Covid-19: New data on Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine backs 12 week dosing interval

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Delta variant: What is happening with transmission, hospital admissions, and restrictions?

Covid-19: US regulator raises significant concerns over safety of rapid lateral flow tests

Covid-19: Science the fall guy as Hancock seeks to shift blame

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A case of 49,XXXXX in which the extra X chromosomes were maternal in origin Journal of Clinical Pathology

Big food and the World Health Organization: a qualitative study of industry attempts to influence global-level non-communicable disease policy BMJ Global Health

Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk? Journal of Medical Ethics

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This glossary of terms related tocoronavirusesandCOVID-19in particular is intended for learners of English though it may be of interest to a wider audience. In times of crisis, knowing and understanding the terminology involved may help alleviate some of the fears and even panic that such times breed.

COVID-19 (alternative pronunciation)

coronavirus: /kəˈrəʊ.nəˌvaɪə.rəs/ [coROnaVIrus]

COVID-19: /ˈkəʊ.vɪdˌnaɪnˈtiːn/[COvid-nineTEEN]

coronavirus: /kəˈroʊ.nəˌvaɪ.rəs/ [coROnaVIrus]

COVID-19: /ˈkoʊ.vɪdˌnaɪnˈtiːn/[COvid-nineTEEN]

[Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)]

A virus is a micro-organism, too small to be seen without a microscope, that causes infectious disease in animals and humans.

In December 2019 a newdiseasewas identified in China. On investigation, the disease was caused by a newvirusof thecoronavirusfamily, and has since been officially namedCOVID-19.

It is believed (subject to further investigation) that COVID-19 originated in a meat and live-animal market in the city of Wuhan in the province of Hubei in the country of China. It subsequently spread to other countries and wasofficially pronouncedpandemicby the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.

Each of the following terms, listed in alphabetical order, has 1) a basic definition and 2) an example sentence showing how the term may be used in context.

animal-human interface(noun): any point where animals (domestic and wild) and humans meet -Animal diseases can potentially pass to humans at anyanimal-human interfacesuch as a zoo, farm or animal market.

asymptomatic(adjective): showing nosymptomsof a particular disease -She had no idea her husband had coronavirus because he was asymptomatic.

carrier(noun): a person or animal thattransmitsa disease to others, whether suffering from it themselves or not -People who are asymptomatic can still be carriers.

carry(verb): be infected with a disease and able to transmit it to others, whethersymptomaticorasymptomatic-Some people may carry coronavirus without knowing it.

community spread(noun):transmissionof a disease directly within a community and not by importation from a foreign source -With this many new positive cases, the evidence suggests that we now have community spread right here in our county.

contact tracing(noun): identification and monitoring of people who may have had contact with aninfectiousperson -By insisting on strict contact tracing as soon as someone was potentially infected, they managed to control the spread of the disease.

contagious(adjective): describing a disease that can pass from person to person, usually by direct contact; describing a person with such a disease.Seeinfectious-Patients who are stillcontagiousare kept in isolation.

coronavirus(noun): any one of a large family ofvirusesthat can causediseasein the breathing and eating systems of humans and animals (respiratory and digestive systems). Coronavirus diseases can range from the relatively harmless common cold to more severe and potentially fatal diseases such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). Seen through a microscope, coronaviruses appear circular with spikes, like crowns 👑, and are named from the Latin for crown, which iscorona. Coronaviruses normally originate in animals and usually cannot be passed to humans. But very occasionally a coronavirus mutates and can then betransmittedfrom animal to human, and then from human to human. This is how the SARS epidemic started in the early 2000s, for example -Did you know that flu is acoronavirusdisease?

COVID-19(noun): official name for thenovel coronavirusdisease that emerged in China in 2019.COVID-19=COronaVIrusDisease-2019-All countries are requested to report any new confirmed case ofCOVID-19within 48 hours.

diagnose(verb): identify an illness by examining thesymptoms-Only a medical professional can properlydiagnosethe cause of your problem.

diagnosis(noun): identification of an illness by examination of thesymptoms-If youre not happy with the doctorsdiagnosisyou could always get a second opinion.

disease(noun): illness; sickness; a disorder of the body -Polio is one of several seriousdiseasesthat have been nearly eradicated.

droplets(noun): the spray produced when people cough or sneeze, and which can spread diseases likeCOVID-19-Health care personnel wear protective clothing to guard against the disease carried indropletswhen infected people sneeze or cough.

epidemic(noun): occurrence of a particular disease in a large number of people in a particular area.Seeoutbreakpandemic-The city was devastated by anepidemicof cholera in the 19th century.

flatten the curve(verb – figurative): change the steep upward curve on a graph of new disease cases to a flatter, shallower upward curve over a longer time period through measures such associal distancing-Authorities hope that by introducing social distancing they will be able toflatten the curveand avoid hospitals being rapidly overwhelmed with new cases.

herd immunity(noun): an indirect protection from a disease resulting from a large percentage of the population gaining immunity (either through vaccination or through recovering from the disease) -This virus is unlike the seasonal flu because there is currently no vaccine or herd immunity, he said.

incubation period(noun): the time from a persons first exposure to adiseaseto the time whensymptomsdevelop -When they know theincubation periodthey will know how long to keep people in quarantine.

infect(verb): affect a human or animal with adisease-causing organism -But can itinfecthuman beings?

infected(adjective/past participle): affected with adisease-causing organism -They were able to cure theinfectedleft lung before the infection could spead to the right lung.

infection(noun): process of infecting; state of being infected; infectious disease -Breast milk can help protect babies against variousinfections.

infectious(adjective): describing adiseasethat can betransmittedthrough the environment; describing a human or animal capable of spreading aninfection.Seecontagious-Avoid the dogs as they may still beinfectious.

Strictly speaking, acontagiousdisease is transmitted by physical contact, and aninfectiousdisease is transmitted via micro-organisms in the air or water. But in practice there is little or no difference in meaning between

isolate(verb): keep aninfectedperson away from healthy people -They willisolateanyone suspected of having the disease.

isolation(noun): separation ofinfectedpeople from healthy people for seriouslike COVID-19 -Travellers arriving from the infected area were immediately put inisolation.

lockdown(noun): official restriction of movement within or access to an area in the interests of public health -Sweden was one of the few countries that did not impose blanketlockdowns.

mask(noun): a piece of fibre or cloth that fits over the nose and mouth to protect other people from the wearers germs and/or the wearer from germs in the air -The World Health Organization recommendthat people should not wear masks unless they may be carrying COVID-19 (to protect other people) or are caring for anyone suffering from COVID-19 (to protect themselves).

novel coronavirus(noun): the wordnovelmeans new, and a newly identifiedcoronavirusstrain is often called a novel coronavirus -Until they gave it a name, they mostly referred to COVID-19 asnovel coronavirus(disease).

outbreak(noun): a sudden occurrence of adisease(or other unpleasant thing).Seeepidemicpandemic-There was anotheroutbreakof the disease in 1993 but the cause was uncertain.

pandemic(noun): occurrence of a particulardiseasethroughout a whole country or the world.Seeepidemicoutbreak-Just after the First World War there was apandemicof flu which killed up to 40 million people worldwide.

pathogen(noun): a micro-organism or germ such as a bacterium orvirusthat can causedisease-Fortunately, mostpathogensare dealt with by the bodys immune system.

patient zero(noun): the person identified as the first to become infected with a disease in an outbreak -Authoritites usually try to determine who patient zero was in any given outbreak as can help answer important questions about how, when and why it started.

PCR test(noun): test that detectsviralparticles in blood or other body fluids. (PCR = polymerase chain reaction) -ThePCR testis one of the tools that doctors use to diagnose certain coronavirus diseases.

personal protective equipment (PPE)(noun): special clothing, headgear, goggles, masks and other garments that shield people from injury orinfection. -Much of thePPEworn by doctors and nurses has to be worn once only and destroyed after use.

person-to-person(adjective): describing the spread of adiseasefrom one person to another, typically through touch including shaking hands, kissing, sexual intercourse etc. -In January an infected American woman returning home from China transmitted the virus to her husband, marking the first known example ofperson-to-personspread of the virus in the USA.

quarantine(noun):isolationand monitoring of people who seem healthy but may have been exposed to anto see if they developsymptoms-For centuries its been common for ships arriving from infected areas to be kept inquarantineat the docks, originally for 40 days which is where the term comes from.

SARS-CoV-2(noun): Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2; final official name for the coronavirus that causesCOVID-19. (This virus was previously known as 2019-nCoV.) -SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus and COVID-19 is the name of the disease.

screening(noun): testing of people for the presence of adisease. ForCOVID-19the first step in screening is usually taking a persons temperature -They now conductscreeningfor all incoming passengers.

self-isolate(verb):isolateoneself; put oneself inquarantine, away from other people -The prime ministers wife has tested positive for COVID-19 and the couple are now self-isolating and working by phone and Skype.

social distancing(noun): practice of encouraging people to minimize contact and closeness, whether by banning large or even small groups/meetings (football matches, nightclubs), or by maintaining a minimum distance between people (for example one metre or two metres) -The government has instructed schools to take social distancing measures to slow the spread of the virus.

superspreader(noun): personinfectedwith avirusetc whotransmitsor spreads it to an unusually large number of people -One so-called superspreader in South Korea infected at least 37 people at her church with the virus.

symptomatic(adjective): showingsymptomsof a particular disease -Anyone who issymptomaticis advised to phone a doctor and get tested.

symptoms(noun): a physical or mental feature that indicates illness/disease-Typicalsymptomsof COVID-19 are fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.

test negative test positive(verb): if you take atestfor aninfectionand you test negative, that means you do not have the infection. If you test positive, that means you have the infection. -The President is pleased to announce that he hastested negativefor the virus.

transmission(noun): transfer of adiseasefrom animal to human or from human to human -Transmissionof many diseases can be direct or indirect.

transmit(verb) – often passive: cause adiseaseto pass from animal to human or from human to human -Many diseases aretransmittedthrough physical contact.

treat(verb): attempt to cure or alleviate an illness or injury through medical care -Doctors cannot currentlytreatCOVID-19 directly and instead concentrate on relieving symptoms.

treatment(noun): medical care given to a patient for an illness or injury -There is currently no specific antiviraltreatmentfor COVID-19, and infected patients receive supportive care to help relieve symptoms.

vaccine(noun): a substance used to protect humans and animals from adisease-Avaccinefor cholera was invented in 1879.

vax(noun, informal): vaccine, vaccination -Have you had your fluvaxthis year?anti-vaxer, anti-vaxxer(noun): a person opposed to vaccines and vaccination on principle -Someanti-vaxxersare against vaccines on religious grounds and others just believe vaccines are dangerous to health.

viral(adjective): describing something like, caused by, or relating to avirusor viruses -Antibiotics cannot be used to treatviralinfections because they dont kill viruses, only bacteria.

virus(noun): a living thing, too small to be seen without a microscope, that causesinfectiousdisease in animals and humans -Like all diseases caused byviruses, the common cold cannot be cured with antibiotics.

zoonotic(adjective): describing adiseasethat can betransmittedfrom animals to humans -To protect yourself fromzoonoticdiseases its best to avoid bites and scratches from animals.

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