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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US regulators on Friday allowed the emergency use of the first drug that appears to help some Covid-19 patients recover faster, a milestone in the global search for effective coronavirus therapies. The Food and Drug Administration has approved Gilead Science’s IV drug for hospitalized patients with “serious illness,” …

[ad_1] In the bustling Amazonian city of Manaus in Brazil, so many people died in a few days in the coronavirus pandemic that coffins had to be stacked on top of each other in long trenches hastily dug in a city cemetery. Some desperate family members reluctantly chose to cremate …

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden. (AP file photo / Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden emphatically denied all mentions by a former Senate staff member that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, stating flatly that “this never happened.” Biden’s first public comments on the …

[ad_1] The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic over a new coronavirus which causes an illness known as COVID-19 that has spread to nearly every country. The disease has killed more than 235,000 people and infected some 3.25 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More …

[ad_1] (CNN) – Sureshbabu Muthupandi, a green card holder who has lived in the United States for over 24 years, refuses to let his family in South India perform his mother’s final rites without him. His body has been embalmed for 30 days. But Muthupandi is trapped in the United …

[ad_1] Ministers have warned that the blockade must remain in place for months until the number of new cases falls below 1,000 per day after Professor Chris Whitty raised the specter of a second peak much worse than the first. The total number of new coronavirus deaths in all settings …

[ad_1] Claim: A Nobel Prize-winning scientist said the coronavirus “is not natural” and that “China made it.” The Facebook posts shared on April 25 contained an alleged quote from Dr. Tasuku Honjo, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. In the quote, Honjo reasoned that if the virus were natural, …

[ad_1] Image copyright fake pictures The coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, with more than three million confirmed cases in 185 countries and more than 200,000 deaths. The United States alone has more than a million confirmed cases, four times more than any other country. This series of maps and charts …

[ad_1] Media playback is not supported on your device Media captionCLOCK: ‘One of two things happened’ United States President Donald Trump appears to weaken his own intelligence agencies by suggesting that he has seen evidence that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory. Previously, the office of the US director …

[ad_1] (CNN) – The Trump administration is formulating a long-term plan to punish China on multiple fronts for the coronavirus pandemic, injecting a new spiteful element into a critical relationship that is already in a steep decline. The effort coincides, but goes far beyond an election campaign strategy of blaming …