 | | | | Novavax Inc on Wednesday entered into a deal with contract drugmaker AGC Biologics to manufacture its experimental COVID-19 vaccine. | | | | | | Sweden should have done more to combat the coronavirus, the epidemiologist behind a national strategy that avoided the strict lockdowns seen in many other countries said on Wednesday. | | | | | | Sweden's government has been ready to introduce further measures to try and halt the spread of the new coronavirus if recommended by the Public Health Agency, Health Minister Lena Hallengren said on Wednesday. | | | | | | More than 600 nurses worldwide are known to have died from COVID-19, which has infected an estimated 450,000 healthcare workers, the International Council of Nurses said on Wednesday. | | | | | | The Dutch government intends to cull the mink at farms where animals have been infected with the coronavirus, broadcaster RTL reported on Wednesday. | | | | | | British doctors are trialling a formulation of anti-inflammatory ibuprofen to see if it reduces respiratory failure in patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19. | | | | | | Vietnam's most gravely-ill COVID-19 patient, a British pilot who works for its national airline, has started to recover from the illness and may no longer require a lung transplant, state media said on Wednesday. | | | | | | Malaysian health authorities reported 93 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, raising the cumulative total to 7,970. | | | | | | The Philippine health ministry on Wednesday recorded eight more deaths and 751 additional infections because of the coronavirus pandemic. | | | | | | Indonesia reported 684 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, taking the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 28,233, said health ministry official Achmad Yurianto. | | | | | | India's government has approved Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug remdesivir for emergency use for five doses in treating COVID-19 patients. | | | | | |
