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FILE PHOTO: Nurses talk near a screen showing heartbeats information of patients suffering from the coronavirus disease in the Intensive Care Unit of Municipal Hospital Parelheiros SPDM, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Amanda PerobelliAustralian authorities are taking legal action to try and stop a Black Lives Matter protest scheduled for Saturday in Sydney, citing the risk of an outbreak of COVID-19 given the thousands expected to attend.
His warnings joined those of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Robert Redfield, who urged participants in protests sweeping the United States since the death of George Floyd to get tested for coronavirus.Scientists are resuming COVID-19 trials of the now world-famous drug hydroxychloroquine, as confusion persists about the anti-malarial hailed by U.S. President Donald Trump as a potential “game-changer” in fighting the pandemic.
But the jury is still out, according to Martin Landray, co-lead scientist on the Recovery trial, the world’s largest research project into existing drugs that might be repurposed to treat COVID-19 patients. “People can quote data, people can quote experts, but there is continuing huge uncertainty,” he said.
“To beat the COVID-19 pandemic, the world needs more than breakthrough science. It needs breakthrough generosity,” Bill Gates, co-chair of the philanthropic Gates Foundation, told the summit.
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