World Coronavirus Dispatch: A cancer drug offers hope to Covid-19 patients

Meanwhile India sixth most infected as it goes past Italy in overall count, US economy shows unexpected 2.5-million job additions in May

AstraZeneca’s cancer drug, Calquence, has shown initial signs of helping hospitalised Covid-19 patients overcome the disease, as researchers scramble to repurpose existing treatments to help fight the deadly infection. Eleven patients had been on oxygen when they started the 10-14-day Calquence course and eight of them could afterwards be discharged, breathing independently, according to results of the preliminary study. Read more here

Let’s look at the global statistics:

• Total Confirmed Cases: 6,639,092
• Change Over Yesterday: 100,931
• Total Deaths: 394,984
• Total Recovered: 2,872,731
• Nations hit with most cases: US (1,897,838), Brazil (614,941), Russia (449,256), UK (284,734) and Spain (240,978)

Source: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus