 "Health workers from Doctors Without Borders visit a squatters camp to conduct medical examinations and avoid the spread of the Covid-19 in Sao Bernardo do Campo, greater Sao Paulo area, Brazil. Photo: AP | PTI")
AstraZeneca’s cancer drug, Calquence, has shown initial signs of helping hospitalised Covid-19 patients overcome the disease, as researchers scramble to repurpose existing treatments to help fight the deadly infection. Eleven patients had been on oxygen when they started the 10-14-day Calquence course and eight of them could afterwards be discharged, breathing independently, according to results of the preliminary study. Read more here
Let’s look at the global statistics:
- Total Confirmed Cases: 6,639,092
- Change Over Yesterday: 100,931
- Total Deaths: 394,984
- Total Recovered: 2,872,731
- Nations hit with most cases: US (1,897,838), Brazil (614,941), Russia (449,256), UK (284,734) and Spain (240,978)
Source: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus
