US Approves Remdesivir To Treat Emergency COVID-19 Patients
This file photo taken on April 8, 2020 shows one vial of the drug Remdesivir during a press conference about the start of a study with the Ebola drug Remdesivir in particularly severely ill patients at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, northern Germany, amidst the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s really a very promising situation,” President Donald Trump said on Friday at the White House, where he was joined by Daniel O’Day, CEO of Gilead Sciences, which developed Remdesivir.The drug approval came as the US leaders struggled with growing pressure from citizens wearying of stay-at-home orders.
Texas became the largest US state yet to ease curbs, while anti-lockdown demonstrations were held in several states — including California, where officials had re-closed beaches beginning Friday to avoid a repeat of last weekend when crowds flocked to the shoreline. Several European countries, including Austria, have begun to ease restrictions with authorities in some of the hardest-hit parts like Spain reporting signs that the pandemic there was slowing.
Meanwhile in South Asia, India announced that the lockdown on its 1.3 billion people — the world’s biggest — would continue for two more weeks from May 4. Stock markets tumbled again on Friday after President Trump’s unproven allegation that the virus may have come from a lab in Wuhan — the central Chinese city where the disease first emerged late last year.The White House has accused Chinese authorities of mishandling the outbreak, “slow-walking” coronavirus data and putting US lives at risk.
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