LATEST: Wuhan hospital director dies from coronavirus as death toll from the virus reaches 1,868 in China.
because of problems in production and demand in China due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Yoshihide Suga, the government’s top spokesman, said at a briefing on Tuesday that the government is “currently conducting preparations so that clinical trials using HIV medication on the novel coronavirus can start as soon as possible.”COVID-19 not as deadly as other coronaviruses: WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a media briefing in Geneva on Monday that China has published a paper with detailed data on more than 44,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, that gives doctors and researchers a better understanding of the age range of people affected, the severity of the disease and the mortality rate.
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