Against the advice of some of the nation’s senior infectious disease experts, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted president Donald Trump’s request for...
As the US death toll from Covid-19 creeps past the 170,000 mark, with a proven vaccine still months away, US president Donald Trump has begun promoting yet another...
UK chemical exports in the second quarter of this year have steadied but uncertainty looms for the rest of 2020 with risks from both Covid-19 and Brexit, said the...
The European Commission has signed a €63 million contract with Gilead Sciences to deliver batches of Veklury, Gilead’s name for the antiviral remdesivir, to the EU’s 27...
European officials recently began talking to companies developing Covid-19 vaccines about supplying the EU’s 27 member states, in hope that none would fall behind bigger...
The strongest and richest form of human communication is face-to-face. Until the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, most people took this form of communication for granted.
The UK will not participate in a plan to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine to Europe’s most vulnerable citizens first. Tim Barrow, the UK’s ambassador to the EU...
Germany’s BioNTech is confident it will be ready to seek regulatory approval for its mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine by the end of this year, its co-founder and chief...