| | | | | Iran has registered a record high 239 new coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 27,658, the Health Ministry reported on Wednesday. | | |
| | | Bristol Myers Squibb Co said on Wednesday its blockbuster cancer immunotherapy, Opdivo, met the main goal of pathologic complete response, or the absence of cancer cells, in a late-stage study in patients with a type of lung cancer. | | |
| | | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that COVID-19 infection were rising in London and elsewhere, but that his government's approach to controlling the spread of the virus was still the right one. | | |
| | | The European Commission said on Wednesday it had agreed with U.S. company Gilead the supply of more than 20,000 additional doses of its COVID-19 drug Remdesivir, in a bid to tackle shortages of the medication in European countries. | | |
| | | Purdue Pharma LP, the OxyContin maker controlled by members of the wealthy Sackler family, is nearing an agreement to plead guilty to criminal charges as part of a broader deal to resolve U.S. Justice Department probes into its alleged role in fueling the nation’s opioid crisis, six people familiar with the matter said. | | |
| | | Top U.S. infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose advocacy of public health guidelines to fight the coronavirus has conflicted with President Donald Trump's downplaying of the pandemic, said on Tuesday the recent rash of infections at the White House could have been prevented. | | |
| | | Namibia said on Wednesday that it had temporarily banned the cross-border movement of cattle into and out of northern neighbour Angola due to an outbreak of highly contagious foot and mouth disease. | | |
| | | The Czech Republic reported a record 4,457 new coronavirus cases in a single day, Health Ministry data showed on Wednesday, as a spike in infections over the past month is now rising at Europe's fastest pace. | | |
| | | The number of new coronavirus infections rose by 1,077 in a day, data https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/situation-schweiz-und-international.html from Switzerland's public health agency showed on Wednesday, the first daily increase of more than 1,000 since early April. | | |
| | | Britain's COVID-19 testing system, already struggling with a surge in new cases, was facing fresh disruption on Wednesday after Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said problems at a new warehouse had delayed the dispatch of some products. | | |
| | | Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche told its UK customers that delivery problems caused by a move to a new warehouse would cause disruption and they may need to activate contingency plans, according to a letter seen by Reuters. | | |
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