Australia's first COVID-19 treatment option, Remdesivir gets approval by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) but is only available to those hospitalised with severe cases.
Australia's first COVID-19 treatment option, Remdesivir, has been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration .
Australia is the one of the first regulators to authorise the use of Remdesivir for treatment following on from recent approvals in European Union, Japan, and Singapore. The mortality rate for patients treated with Remdesivir in the analysis was 7.6 per cent at Day 14, compared with 12.5 per cent among patients not on Remdesivir.An advance team from the World Health Organization has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus which sparked the global pandemic.
"We know it's very, very similar to the virus in the bat, but did it go through an intermediate species? This is a question we all need answered," she said.We asked scientists what to do about the Victorian border. They had a surprising answerUS rapper Eminem has launched a scathing attack on people who refuse to wear face coverings in public as coronavirus infections surge across the country.
The traditional British summer getaway to the sun-soaked beaches of the Mediterranean Sea is set to pick up steam as UK quarantine restrictions are removed from dozens of countries, including France, Greece and Italy. The aviation and travel industries are hoping that the new rules will help them salvage part of the summer holiday booking season that has been so battered by the restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic — thousands of people have lost their jobs as business ground to a halt.
Tourism all but shut down in Spain in March because of the coronavirus pandemic and has only slowly began resuming.
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