Dive Brief: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved the first round of funding for hospitals and health systems to provide telehealth in areas hit hardest by the novel coronavirus. Six providers received more than $ 3.2 million from the $ 200 million fund set aside for telehealth by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic… Read More »
The government does not expect to make changes to coronavirus lockdown restrictions this week, Dominic Raab has said. The foreign secretary said the UK’s plan “is working” but that “we are still not past the peak of this virus”. “Keep this up, we have come too far, lost too many loved ones and sacrificed too… Read More »
Takeda has formed a multinational alliance to work on an unbranded hyperimmune globulin therapy for COVID-19. China’s Qiming Venture Partners, which previously backed CanSino Bio and Zai Lab, has set up another venture fund. Following some encouraging early evidence and the initiation of a Japanese study, Fujifilm will test influenza med Avigan in a U.S.… Read More »
FILE PHOTO: A city employee, wearing protective gear, disinfects near to the Angel de la Independencia monument as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Mexico City, Mexico April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has recorded its first two deaths of pregnant women from the coronavirus as the overall number of fatalities… Read More »
Everyone has been told to remain at home to avoid spreading the infection. You should only leave your home to go food or medicine shopping, for medical help, traveling to and from work – where absolutely necessary – and for one form of exercise every day. More than 55,000 people in the UK have tested… Read More »