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WASHINGTON: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted authorisation to Gilead Sciences for emergency use of its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat patients with Covid-19, it said in a letter to Gilead. During a meeting in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, Gilead Chief Executive Daniel …

The world needs to continue to learn how China’s Wuhan is dealing with COVID-19 after it cleared all severe cases and lifted the lockdown, said an official with the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. Hubei Province, where Wuhan is located, continued to see no new COVID-19 case on Thursday, …

UNITED NATIONS: The United States and China remained at loggerheads on Thursday over a UN Security Council draft resolution calling for a 90-day humanitarian pause in conflicts worldwide in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The stalemate — over a mention of the World Health Organisation (WHO) — leaves little …

GENEVA: The global death toll from the COVID-19 surged past 200,000 on Sunday as the number of virus infections nears the grim three million milestone. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also warned against “immunity passports” for recovered patients, seen as a possible tool for countries preparing to re-open their …

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that there was currently “no evidence” that people who have recovered from coronavirus and have antibodies are protected from a second virus infection. In a scientific brief, the United Nations agency warned governments against issuing “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” to people …

TEHRAN:  The worldwide death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed 191,000 with about 2.7 million cases and more than 749,000 recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. The university’s data counted 191,084 deaths, while the number of cases and recoveries rose to 2,726,759 and 749,888, respectively. The US …

TEHRAN:Iranian Health Ministry announced on Friday that the number of coronavirus cases has hit 88,194 in Iran, while 66,596 have recovered from the disease. Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour pointed to the latest statistics on the coronavirus in the country, saying that 1,168 new cases have tested positive with …

A malaria drug widely touted as a potential cure for Covid-19 showed no benefit against the disease over standard care — and was in fact associated with more deaths, the biggest study of its kind showed on Tuesday. The US government-funded analysis of how American military veterans fared on hydroxychloroquine …

You can freeze them, burn them, dry them out or even blast them into space, but humble tardigrades can survive it all. As a demonstration of tardigrade power, a new experiment has shown that even locking the critters in a block of ice for three decades fails to deliver the …

The World Health Organization’s European office says that despite certain “optimistic signs” in some of the countries worst hit by the new coronavirus, the number of cases is rising and approaching one million in the continent alone. “We remain in the eye of the storm,”the WHO regional director for Europe, …