Right now, we could all use some good news, and it came yesterday in the form of dexamethasone. This cheap steroid could significantly reduce deaths in critically ill Covid-19 patients by one-third for those on ventilators and by one-fifth for those on oxygen alone. The drug appears to stop the …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment registered, on Wednesday, 1554 new Covid-19 cases, 908 recoveries and 61 fatalities in the past 24 hours, in the highest toll of cases and fatalities since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country. In a statement received by AlghdeerTV, the ministry said …

Oil fell on Wednesday on fears that COVID-19 cases could rise, but prices drew some support from stimulus measures and hopes for positive tests of a drug that could save some critically ill patients. Brent crude LCOc1 was down 21 cents, or 0.5%, at $40.75 a barrel at 0930 GMT. …

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was moving to update its guidelines on treating people stricken with COVID-19 to reflect results of a clinical trial that showed a cheap, common steroid can help save critically ill patients. Trial results announced on Tuesday showed dexamethasone, used since the 1960s to …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health announced, that today’s fatality and case count are the highest since the outbreak emerged in Iraq with 60 and 1385 respectively. The ministry said in a statement received by Shafaq News agency, that, “10330 tests were performed today, raising the total number of tests performed …

Norway is halting its Covid-19 tracking app and will delete the data it has already collected after the country’s data protection watchdog criticized its continued use amid privacy concerns. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority said on Friday that it was no longer reasonable to collect data through the app considering …

The US Food and Drug Administration has revoked its emergency use authorization for the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for the treatment of Covid-19. After reviewing the current research available on the drugs, the FDA determined that the drugs do not meet “the statutory criteria” for emergency use authorization as they …

Far more people around the world think China has responded well to the COVID-19 pandemic than those who think the United States has done a good job, a poll by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation showed on Monday. The survey of more than 120,000 people from 53 countries by the …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment registered today 45 fatalities and more than 1,106 new Covid-19 cases, while today’s recovery count amounted to 1150; the highest since the beginning of the outbreak in the country. The ministry said in a statement today that 10135 tests were performed today, raising …

Officials in Pakistan have estimated that nationwide confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections could reach up to 1.2 million by the end of July, urging the nation to strictly comply with safety guidelines to help reverse the rising trajectory of new cases. The national tally of infections has surpassed 140,000, with …

The daily epidemiological situation of registered infections with the emerging covid-19 virus in Iraq   (9920) forms were examined in all specialized laboratories in Iraq for today. Thus, the total sum of the samples examined since the beginning of disease registration in Iraq (36970) Today, the Ministry of Health and …

A 70-year-old coronavirus patient, Michael Flor, hospitalised for over two months and doctors did not believe he would survive. Flor beat the virus and received a million-dollar of hospital bill for it. A 70-year-old American man who nearly died of Covid-19 has been billed a heart-stopping $1.1 million for his …

Covid-19 has killed more than 432,000 people worldwide since the outbreak started in China last year, according to tracking websites. Here are the developments for June 14: Beijing confirms eight new cases in first seven hours of June 14 Beijing city confirmed eight new cases in the first seven hours …

Beijing on Sunday reported a record 36 new cases of COVID-19 in China’s capital, all linked to a major food wholesale market, raising concerns about the spike in a country that had sharply reduced its infections. The city has ordered testing of anyone linked to the Xinfadi market after the …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment registered, on Thursday, 1180 new Covid-19 cases, 647 recoveries and 53 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The ministry said in a statement received by AlghdeerTV that, 10325 tests were performed today, raising the total number of performed tests since the beginning of …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment registered, on Thursday, 1261 new Covid-19 cases, 354 recoveries and 39 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The ministry said in a statement received by AlghdeerTV that, 9757 tests were performed today, raising the total number of performed tests since the beginning of …

A medicine that may treat and prevent Covid-19 is now being tested in patients in multiple sites around the United States, according to an announcement Thursday from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. It is the first trial of a Covid-19 antibody cocktail in the United States. If successful, Regeneron hopes it could …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment registered, today, 34 fatalities and more than 1000 new Covid-19 cases in the past day; which is among the highest records since the beginning of of the outbreak in Iraq. In a statement received AlghdeerTv, the ministry said that 7835 tests were performed …

Nearly 49 million more people are likely to fall into extreme poverty this year due to the COVID-19 crisis and every percentage point drop in the global GDP would mean hundreds of thousands of additional children will have stunted growth, UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned, calling on countries to …

World Health Organization expert Maria van Kerkhove says people with coronavirus are most infectious just at the point when they first begin to feel unwell, day after remarks that transmission of virus by people with no symptoms is “very rare.” A top World Health Organization (WHO) expert has tried to …