WHO adopts test method that helped stifle Ebola for coronavirus

Thu, Mar 19, 2020 - 10:22 PM

"It's an unprecedented opportunity to come together as one against a common enemy," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing.

PHOTO: REUTERS

[GENEVA] The World Health Organisation is taking the drug-testing approach that helped stifle Ebola's latest resurgence and using it against the new coronavirus.

At least 10 countries including France, Spain and Switzerland agreed to join a trial called Solidarity that the global agency...

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