British pharmaceutical company Synairgen revealed Monday that its new respiratory COVID-19 treatment reduced the number of hospitalized patients requiring intensive care in its recent clinical trial. Read More »

Phase two of trials for a Russian-made coronavirus vaccine will end on August 3, to be immediately followed by a third, international phase. If successful, it could be the first effective Covid-19 solution to be mass-produced. Read More »

Ottawa is working with Beijing to facilitate the start of testing of a Chinese vaccine candidate against the novel coronavirus disease in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a briefing. Read More »

The United Nations expanded its appeal to fund the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic in vulnerable countries and now seeks more than $10 billion, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Thursday. Read More »

While other countries are still lifting quarantine or planning to re-open public activities, Vietnam – a small, developing country that has about 1,400 km of land, river and stream and borders with China – has been opened up for more than a month. Read More »

Study authors say that although COVID-19 is seen as a disease that primarily affects the respiratory system, rashes have been reported as symptoms in some severe cases in which patients were hospitalised in China and Europe. Read More »

Researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York believe that an existing drug, already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), may be able to reduce the severity of COVID-19 to that of a common cold or perhaps eliminate symptoms altogether. Read More »

The former Trump campaign PR pro suggested the western world is actively building a case against Beijing, attempting to prove that the novel virus "leaked from a Wuhan virus lab", claims denounced by China as a bunch of "conspiracy theories". Read More »

The clinical trials of the world's first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University have been successfully completed, Vadim Tarasov, the director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Biotechnology, told Sputnik. Read More »

North Korea does not need to engage in talks with the United States, as a meeting would be nothing more than a “tool for grappling” with Washington’s “political crisis,” a senior Pyongyang diplomat said. Read More »