| | Branch staff at some of Britain's biggest banks say rules that require them to store phones in lockers while at work are putting them at undue risk of COVID-19 from colleagues and customers, as they cannot use the country's tracing app. | |
| Italy is finalising a tender to buy 5 million COVID-19 rapid antigenic tests, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday, as the country seeks to make testing for citizens easier and faster. | |
| AstraZeneca could start profiting from its COVID-19 vaccine as soon as July next year, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing a memo showing the British drugmaker can declare when it considers the pandemic to have ended. | |
| Iran has registered a record high 4,392 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 488,236, the Health Ministry reported on Thursday. | |
| Three more cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been confirmed in wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, the state government said on Thursday. | |
| Eli Lilly and Co said on Thursday it had entered into an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for potential supply of its experimental antibody treatments for COVID-19 to low and middle-income countries. | |
| Patients are asking to join clinical trials of antibody-based COVID-19 drugs after U.S. President Donald Trump was treated last week with an experimental therapy from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc , and on Wednesday he promised to make it free to Americans while touting its benefits. | |
| Only two-thirds of positive COVID-19 cases were referred to England's test and trace system in the latest weekly figures, health service statistics showed on Thursday, as Britain struggles to contain a second wave of the coronavirus. | |
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| Gilead Sciences said on Thursday it had agreed to sell Europe up to 500,000 courses of its antiviral drug remdesivir, as the continent shores up supplies of one of only two drugs approved to treat COVID-19 patients ahead of the winter. | |
| The number of new coronavirus infections rose by 1,172 in a day, data from Switzerland's public health agency showed on Thursday. The agency reported a total of 58,881 confirmed cases. The death toll rose by two from Wednesday to 1,791. | |
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