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Apr 07, 2020
By Wendell Roelf and Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's main health workers' union planned to challenge the government in court on Tuesday over shor...
Apr 07, 2020
By Nathan Layne and Maria Caspani (Reuters) - New York has suffered its deadliest day in the novel coronavirus pandemic, with 731 fatalities in the last 24 hours, although...
Apr 07, 2020
By Gwladys Fouche and Victoria Klesty OSLO (Reuters) - Norway, one of the first European countries to curb activities to rein in the spread of the coronavirus, will relax ...
Apr 07, 2020
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom coronavirus death toll rose by 786 to 6,159 people as of 1600 GMT on April 6, the health ministry said on Tuesday. As of 0800 GMT on ...
Apr 07, 2020
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's Alpine province of Tyrol lifted on Tuesday the quarantine order it placed on its towns and villages to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, though seve...
Apr 07, 2020
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish government will put forward a bill granting it wider powers to quickly take steps such as closing transport hubs or restaurants if needed to curb the s...
Apr 07, 2020
RIYADH (Reuters) - The new coronavirus could eventually infect between 10,000 and 200,000 people in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's health minister said on Tuesday, urging the public to adh...
Apr 07, 2020
In December 2019, the Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) virus has emerged in Wuhan, China. In this research, the first resolved COVID-19 crystal structure (main protease) was targeted in a virtual s...
Apr 07, 2020
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A leading global health fund has asked international businesses and governments to provide $8 billion to support development and product...
Apr 07, 2020
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's medical diagnostic group Diasorin said on Tuesday it aims to launch a new serological test to detect antibodies in patients infected with the new coronavirus b...
Apr 06, 2020
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - School closures do not tend to help contain the spread of infections during outbreaks of disease such as COVID-19, but will have a big i...
Apr 06, 2020
By Trisha Roy and Manas Mishra (Reuters) - British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will invest $250 million in Vir Biotechnology Inc and collaborate to develop potential antibod...
Apr 06, 2020
LONDON (Reuters) - Health experts on Monday urged smokers to quit and cigarette companies to stop producing and selling tobacco products to help reduce the risks from COVID-19. ...
Apr 06, 2020
PARIS (Reuters) - Novacyt's COVID-19 diagnostic test has been approved by France's CNR arm of the Institut Pasteur, making it available for immediate distribution in France, the healthc...
Apr 06, 2020
MONDAY, April 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- According to a national survey conducted by Harvard Medical School, the RAND Corporation, and Doximity, practicing physicians currently report substantial con...
Apr 06, 2020
MONDAY, April 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support might improve clinical outcomes in severe cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that cannot be adequ...
Apr 05, 2020
By James Mackenzie and Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported its lowest daily COVID-19 death toll for more than two weeks on Sunday as authorities began to lo...
Apr 05, 2020
LONDON (Reuters) - UK-based biopharma company Izana Bioscience said it was testing its antibody therapy namilumab for the treatment of patients with rapidly worsening COVID-19 at the Hu...
Apr 05, 2020
By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has quarantined a second migrant facility on its mainland after a 53-year-old man tested positive for the new coronavirus, the ...