EU tests platform to link up coronavirus tracing apps

Several European countries have started testing a technology platform that will allow national coronavirus tracing apps to 'talk' to one another to better tackle the pandemic, the European Commission said on Monday.

Hospital ICUs lean on telemedicine amid U.S. COVID-19 crisis

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads deeper into America’s small towns and rural outposts, Dr. Tallulah Holmstrom has seen familiar faces fill her intensive-care unit in Camden, South Carolina.

Merck to buy $1 billion equity stake in Seattle Genetics

Merck & Co Inc said on Monday it would buy $1 billion worth of equity stake in Seattle Genetics's common stock.

Singapore gives out pocket-sized device to trace coronavirus

Singapore began handing out pocket-sized coronavirus contact-tracing devices to residents on Monday, part of a planned nationwide rollout to help the city-state safely reopen its economy.

Eli Lilly's rheumatoid arthritis drug helps recovery in COVID-19 patients

Eli Lilly and Co said on Monday its rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib shortened the time taken to recover from COVID-19 in hospitalized patients when taken in combination with Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral remdesivir.

Regeneron's antibody drug added to UK Recovery trial of COVID treatments

The world's largest randomised trial of potential medicines for COVID-19 is to add Regeneron's experimental antiviral antibody cocktail REGN-COV2 to the drugs it is testing in patients hospitalised with the disease.

AstraZeneca's UK COVID-19 vaccine trials restarted, EU medical register shows

AstraZeneca's British clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine, one of the most advanced in development, resumed on Monday, according to the European clinical trials database EudraCT.

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now

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India's parliament meets after six months as COVID cases surge

India's parliament met for the first time in six months on Monday, as novel coronavirus cases across the country rose by more than 90,000 in the space of a day and the total number of infections neared 5 million.

Latest on the worldwide spread of coronavirus

Global coronavirus cases marked a record one-day increase, with many countries facing a second wave of infections, while a pandemic preparedness panel slammed the collective failure of political leaders to heed warnings and prepare for a crisis.

Gilead to buy cancer drugmaker Immunomedics for $21 billion

Gilead Sciences Inc will acquire biotech company Immunomedics Inc for $21 billion, a move that will strengthen its cancer portfolio by gaining access to a promising drug, the two companies said in a joint statement on Sunday.

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