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COVID Infections Boost Heart-Related Deaths, Top Africa Health Insurer Says

Africa’s biggest health insurer said the number of heart-related deaths rose more than sixfold during the COVID-19 pandemic among the clients of one of its units. Discovery Employee Benefits, a unit of Johannesburg-based Discovery Ltd. that has more than half …

COVID-19 to Cut UK Life Expectancy by 9 Months: RBC Analysts

The coronavirus pandemic is seen cutting life expectancy in the UK by nine months, Royal Bank of Canada analysts said, helping to reverse trends of longevity. The estimate from insurance stock analysts Gordon Aitken and Mandeep Jagpal was based on …

Texas Veterans Homes Often the Deadliest Places During COVID-19 Pandemic

Mary Kay Dieterich was encouraged last year when Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush promised to shake up the management of the El Paso nursing home where her father died of COVID-19. She knew it wouldn’t bring Eugene Forti, a …

Missouri Auto Parts Manufacturer Cited in Worker’s Coronavirus Death

Federal workplace safety officials have cited a Missouri-based auto parts manufacturer for failing to maintain safe workplace conditions after worker tested positive for coronavirus and subsequently died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Two machine operators at Grandview-based …

Arkansas Sees Near-Record Increase in COVID-19 Deaths

Arkansas on Wednesday reported its second-highest one-day increase in COVID-19 deaths so far and 649 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes the illness. The Department of Health said the 21 new deaths bring the state’s death toll to …