The Hague, May 14, 2020 (AFP) – A vaccine for the coronavirus could be ready in a year’s time under an “optimistic” scenario, based on data from trials that are under way, the European Medicines Agency said Thursday.
Geneva, April 22, 2020 (AFP) – COVID-19 will stalk the planet for a long time to come, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, warning that most countries were still in the early stages of tackling the pandemic.
Paris, April 19, 2020 (AFP) – More than 30 studies are under way in France — of a world total of 860 — in search of drugs to treat the COVID-19 disease sweeping the world, infectologist Florence Ader said Sunday.
Brussels, April 22, 2020 (AFP) – The European Commission on Wednesday authorised a merger of US drug giant Pfizer’s off-patent business unit with the pharmaceutical company Mylan to create a global powerhouse for lower-cost medicines.
Washington, April 15, 2020 (AFP) – Iceland has provided a textbook example of how to get out ahead of a looming pandemic: per capita, it has tested more people for coronavirus than any other country on earth and it got started a month before the first case was even confirmed in the tiny Nordic island
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United Nations, United States, April 15, 2020 (AFP) – A COVID-19 vaccine may be the only thing that can bring back “normalcy,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday, hoping for just that before the end of the year.
Washington, April 15, 2020 (AFP) – The wealthy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called Wednesday for global cooperation to ready COVID-19 vaccines for seven billion people, while offering $150 million toward developing therapeutics and treatments for the virus.
Paris, April 15, 2020 (AFP) – The US decision to freeze funding to the World Health Organization over what President Donald Trump said was its “mismanaging” of the global coronavirus pandemic triggered anger and concern on Wednesday.
Geneva, April 13, 2020 (AFP) – The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization said Monday, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.
Beijing, April 14, 2020 (AFP) – China has approved clinical trials for two more experimental vaccines to combat the novel coronavirus, officials said Tuesday, as the world’s scientists race to beat the pandemic.
