Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) MOSCOW (Reuters) – A candidate drug for […]
Coronavirus: UK drug trial for over-50s recruiting Source: BBC A trial of potential coronavirus drugs aimed at over-50s, who are vulnerable to developing serious symptoms, is looking to recruit more […]
Covid antibody test a ‘positive development’ Source: BBC A test to find out whether people have been infected with coronavirus in the past has been approved by health officials in […]
By Emily Judd, for Al Arabiya English Pope Francis has called on “believers of all faiths” to unite next Thursday in a day of fasting and prayer to ask “God […]
Feel like you’re going mad after weeks without being touched by another person? Helen Coffey finds out why we crave human contact Source: Independent By Helen Coffey “It’s hard to remember when I last had physical contact with another human. That’s how normal it used to be – I wouldn’t […]
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As countries around the world slowly begin to reduce social distancing restrictions, the need for a vaccine against the COVID-19 disease becomes increasingly urgent. One Canadian […]
(CNN) Hundreds of factory workers at a fish processing plant in Ghana have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s president Nana Akufo-Addo said. All 533 of them contracted the virus from one worker at the factory in the port city of Tema, the president said in his public address […]
Source: New York Times An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide? When will the […]
Source: Market Watch Government to test remdesivir with Lilly drug in COVID-19 patients The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said Friday it is testing Gilead Sciences Inc.’s (GILD) […]
Source: CNBC There is a higher chance of false negatives with an antigen test and a negative result may need to be confirmed with an additional PCR test prior to […]
Source: CDC The daily new cases seemed to have plateaued around 25000-30,000. For the latest daily numbers please go the CDC website. These numbers are a sure guide if things […]
Source: Clinical Trials Arena The trial will assess the drug in Covid-19 patients with mild to moderate infection. Credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received approval from the […]
Source: CNN Japan has approved the use of the experimental anti-viral drug remdesivir, for the treatment of coronavirus patients with severe symptoms. Researchers in the US released some good news last week about […]
From CNN’s Adrienne Vogt Science journalist Laurie Garrett has been warning about a pandemic like Covid-19 for decades and predicts the coronavirus pandemic could possibly last for three years. “Each […]
Source: Dawn US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences on Tuesday said that it was in talks with drug companies in Pakistan and India to start remdesivir production. Remdesivir is an experimental […]
Source: BBC More than $8bn (£6.5bn) has been pledged to help develop a coronavirus vaccine and fund research into the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Some 40 countries and […]
Source: MSN By Kashmira Gander Since the coronavirus began infecting people in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, more than 3.5 million people have been diagnosed with […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher; Health and science correspondent Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The team in Kenya and the UK […]
By Hollie Silverman (CNN)373 employees and contract workers at Triumph Foods in Buchanan County, Missouri, have tested positive for coronavirus. All of them were asymptomatic, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The state of Missouri has reported 8,386 cases and 352 deaths […]
Source: ABC Italy — a country that has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic — is starting to see a glimmer of hope. As the number of coronavirus cases […]