16 THE PUNCH, Monday, July 13, 2020

Virus kills girlafter no mask& 6ft apart atchurch party

TEEN DIES FROM KILLER VIRUS AFTER ATTENDING CHURCH PARTY: A teenager who died of the coronavirus attended a party at a church with 100 others just two weeks before her death.

Carsyn Davis, 17, of Fort Myers on Florida's Gulf Coast, failed to wear a face mask at the church event. And partygoers also failed to observe social distancing, ac-cording to the Medical Examiner’s report on the teen's death. The teen girl, who had several pre-existing health conditions, died days after testing positive for COVID-19.

Her parents, who are both healthcare workers, tried to treat her at home with unproven drugs for nearly a week before finally taking her to the hospital.

Mom Carole Davis, a nurse, and the teen's father, a doctor's assistant, gave her azithromycin—an antibiotic being stud-ied as a possible virus treatment. They also dosed her with hydroxychloroquine, a drug hailed by some, including President Trump, as a possible treatment for COVID-19.

Two days after the church event, their daughter developed a headache, sinus pres-sure and a mild cough, which the family as-sumed was the result of a sinus infection. But her health rapidly grew worse.

The parents then tried putting the teen on an oxygen tank used by her grandfather, who has a breathing problem. They finally took her to Gulf Coast Medical Centre.

Tests confirmed that she had the deadly virus. And days later, the teen was dead.

    JOGGER FINDS HUMAN HEAD ON ROAD-SIDE: Cops are investigating the horrific discovery of a rotten human head found by a jogger on a road in St Petersburg near Tampa. The woman made the gruesome find at around 7am as she jogged along 38th Avenue by the Interstate 275 overpass.

The decapitated head is so badly decom-posed that investigators cannot yet tell the gender or the race of the victim.

Police are searching a nearby wooded area for any further remains and clues.

But the police believe the person may not have died there because it was not yet a skeleton. The jogger said she had run the same path the day before. But she didn't see the head by the roadside the day before.

    SCHOOLS ORDERED TO OPEN AS COVID-19 CASES CONTINUE TO SURGE: Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corc-oran has signed an emergency order re-quiring all schools in the state to open their doors to students in August.

“There is a need to open schools to en-sure the quality and continuity of the edu-cational process, the well-being of students and families and a return to Florida hitting its full economic stride,” Corcoran said.

However, the Democrat, of Tallahassee, North Florida, added that the order can be overridden by local health officials due to concerns over the coronavirus, cases of which have surged across the state.

The Commissioner also listed require-ments that districts must adhere to if they decide to provide remote online learning along with in-person classes.

The order concerning Florida’s schools came after President Trump tweeted that “SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!”

    MAN SHOOTS DAD AND GIRL DEAD IN HEATED ROW OVER HIS DOG: A man gunned down a father and his 13-year-old daughter in a heated row about his dog.

The teen girl called 911 to say there was a man in her home who she thought had shot her father. Moments later, Ronald Delserro shot the girl as well.

Cops arrived to find Delserro in the home in Port St Lucie, Central Florida, where Guy Hansman, 55, and his daughter, Harper, had been shot dead. During a shoot-out with police, one officer was injured. And Delser-

ro, 82, was shot dead. He had apparently been upset after his dog was declared dan-gerous in court after it attacked Hansman's wife. The court was set to decide if the dog should be confiscated and destroyed.

“He went to confront his neighbours. And this is what happened,” police said.

    CASES OF DENGUE FEVER ON RISE: An 11th case of the mosquito-borne sickness dengue fever has been confirmed in the Florida Keys, officials of the Florida De-partment Of Health announced.

All of the cases have been found in Key Largo, the northernmost key about 60 miles south of Miami. Eight cases were found there during the last week of June.

The viral disease is contracted through the bite of a female mosquito, which also spreads yellow fever, Zika and chikungun-ya. Symptoms of dengue appear within two weeks of a bite. They include fever, muscle aches and pains—and at times a rash.

    MAYOR CHANGES MIND AND ALLOWS EATERIES AND GYMS TO OPEN: Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez has changed his mind and decided to allow restaurants and gyms to remain open—just one day after ordering them to shut as coronavirus cases continued to surge alarmingly in the city.

Gimenez announced in a tweet that he had agreed to keep gyms and fitness centres open after meeting with medical experts and a number of gym owners. But anyone training indoors must wear a mask. If train-ing outdoors, people do not have to wear a mask but must remain 10ft apart.

The mayor also decided to allow "some" outdoor dining at restaurants after discuss-ing the issue with medical experts and members of the restaurant industry.

Under the amended rules, no more than four customers can be seated at a table, so-cial distancing will be enforced and music will not be played loudly to ensure people are not shouting, Gimenez said.

The updates were met with mixed reac-tions from Miami residents. Some accused Gimenez of caving to industry leaders in spite of health concerns. And others praised the mayor for relieving local businesses.

Florida has the steepest and most alarm-ing rise in cases of the virus in the U.S.

    PATIENT CATCHES BRAIN-EATING DIS-EASE: A patient in Florida has contracted a rare, brain-eating amoeba-disease.

The Florida Department Of Health said a case of the often-deadly amoeba called Naegleria fowleri was detected in the Or-lando area. The parasite is found naturally in freshwater. It can be life-threatening when it enters the body through the nose, causing a condition that destroys brain tis-sue, state health officials explained.

The infection is more likely to occur in July, August and September when the water is warmer, the doctors warned.

Since 1962, there have been only 37 con-firmed cases of the amoeba in the Sunshine State of Florida. The state’s health officials encouraged people to hold their nose shut or use nose-clips during water activities.

    BOY, 7, KILLED AS ATV FLIPS OVER: A boy died and five others were hurt when an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) flipped over.

The boy of seven was driving a Kawasa-ki Teryx4 in Dade City, near Tampa, when it overturned in a grassy field. Three men and two other young children were also on the vehicle at the time. The boy later died in a hospital from his injuries. A boy of two, and a four-year-old girl were seriously hurt. The three men suffered minor injuries.

Nobody in the vehicle was wearing seat belts or helmets. A state law requires any-one under-16 to wear a helmet and eye protection while driving an ATV machine.

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