Apr 14, 2020

Data on 53 Patients Treated With Investigational Antiviral Remdesivir Through the Compassionate Use Program Published in New England Journal of Medicine Remdesivir treatment resulted in clinical i...

Apr 14, 2020

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of new cases of COVID-19 is easing in some parts of Europe, including Italy and Spain, but outbreaks are still growing i...

Apr 14, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain has converted the multi-storey car park of a military hospital into a 130-bed intensive care unit for patients with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by...

Apr 14, 2020

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland faces shortages of medicine including painkillers needed to treat coronavirus patients in the country's intensive care units, a health ministry official s...

Apr 14, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak said the government was not facing a choice between slowing the spread of the coronavirus or protecting the economy. ...

Apr 14, 2020

(Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Sanofi SA said on Tuesday they would develop a vaccine to fight the fast-spreading coronavirus. The drugmakers said they expect to star...

Apr 14, 2020

By Hyunjoo Jin and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's SolGent has secured an order to supply a U.S. government agency with an additional 7,500 kits which can ea...

Apr 14, 2020

By Aakash B (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc <AZN.L> said on Tuesday it would start a clinical trial of its cancer drug Calquence to assess its potential to control the e...

Apr 13, 2020

By Maria Caspani and Jessica Resnick-Ault NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ten U.S. governors on the east and west coasts banded together on Monday in two regional pacts to coordinate...

Apr 13, 2020

By Yew Lun Tian and Huizhong Wu SUIFENHE, China (Reuters) - China's northeastern border with Russia has become a frontline in the fight against a resurgence of the coronav...

Apr 13, 2020

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's health minister urged the government to speak with a unified voice in its fight against the new coronavirus, effectively calling out President Jair Bolson...

Apr 13, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - More than 117 million children could miss out on immunization against measles as the COVID-19 pandemic forces social distancing and pile...

Apr 13, 2020

By Stephanie Nebehay and Silke Koltrowitz GENEVA/ZURICH (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) voiced confidence on Monday that the United States woul...

Apr 13, 2020

By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - A hospital in Connecticut has successfully employed a new 3D-printed device that makes it possible to modify one ventilator for use in two crit...

Apr 13, 2020

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy sailor died on Monday after contracting the coronavirus aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Rooseve...

Apr 13, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 4,585, with 111 more overnight, a health ministry official said on Monday, adding the total number of infe...

Apr 13, 2020

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis praised the country's efforts to contain the coronavirus on Monday but said there was no room for complacency before Orthodox...

Apr 13, 2020

By Vladimir Soldatkin and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russia might need to call in the army to help tackle the coronavirus cri...

Apr 13, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should expect the number of daily deaths from coronavirus to continue to rise this week, followed by a plateau for a period of two to three weeks, the governm...

Apr 13, 2020

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian health authorities on Monday reported 134 new coronavirus cases, raising the cumulative total to 4,817 as Southeast Asia's third-largest economy sees ...