British drugmaker, AstraZeneca, one of the leading players in the race for a coronavirus vaccine, has started testing an antibody-based drug on volunteers for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19
Testing for the COVID-19, Sydney, Australia, April 7, 2020. /Reuters Genomic testing has shown that the virus leading a second wave of infections in the Australian states of Victoria and New S
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed shock and sadness at the explosion in Lebanon's Beirut city killing scores of people. "Shocked and saddened
To blame China for this pandemic is to rewrite the history of COVID-19 and to marginalize the failings of Western nations, said Dr. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of medical journal The Lancet.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines surged to 112,593 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported a record high of 6,352 new cases on Tuesday.
A woman is tested for Covid-19 at a walk-up testing site in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 17. /AP The US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced it has issued an emergency use autho
French researchers have identified a unique signature in the most critically ill COVID-19 patients - a combination of deficiency in a response of a particular interferon, as well as exacerbated infl
Some 2.3 million people in Mozambique are estimated to have been infected with HIV, placing the country among the eight most affected by the disease in the world, the country's Health Minister Armin
The U.S. economy is stumbling as the viral outbreak intensifies, threatening to slow hiring and deepening the uncertainty for employees, consumers and companies across the country.More than 1.3 milli
South Africa reported a record 192 single-day deaths related to COVID-19 late Tuesday, bringing the total to 3,502 in the country. Of the new deaths, 75 were reported in Gauteng Province, 44 in West
Iran reported 2,449 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the total confirmed number to 237,878 on Saturday, state TV reported. Sima Sadat Lari, spokesw
The European Commission, the bloc's executive arm, on Friday authorized the use of anti-viral drug remdesivir to treat the new coronavirus. "Today's authorization of a
A new antiviral drug has been proved effective in blocking COVID-19 in computer modelling. Researchers from Monash University conducted extensive modelling of alpha-ketoamide 13b on a supercomputer
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday said it has successfully isolated and cultured the novel coronavirus from the recent clusters o
It is when people with the novel coronavirus first begin to feel unwell that they are most infectious, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Tuesday. "It appears from very limited inform
VCG An inactivated COVID-19 vaccine developed by China has shown effective protection against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, in animal experiments, according to a study publish
The Philippines has signed an agreement with the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) committing the multilateral lender to extend a loan of 750 million U.S. d
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