By Spy Uganda
European governments have moved to halt the use of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients, and a second global trial was suspended, further blowing hopes for a treatment promoted by US President Donald Trump.
Brazil’s death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 25,000
people on Wednesday, the health ministry said. Deaths from the disease caused
by the Coronavirus over the last 24 hours were 1,086, while the number of cases
rose by 20,599, reaching 411,821.
The number of coronavirus cases in the Arab Gulf
region, which includes Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Oman,
has exceeded 200,000, as the largest economies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have
begun to ease restrictions.
More than 5.7 million cases of coronavirus have been confirmed
around the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Around
356,000 people have died, while more than 2.3 million have recovered.
WHO official: Spike in European deaths since March
linked to COVID-19
About 159,000 more people in 24 European countries
have died since early March than would have ordinarily been expected, a World
Health Organization official has said, adding a “significant
proportion” of the spike is linked to COVID-19.
“What we have seen very clearly is that the peak
in excess mortality corresponds in those countries to the peak of the
transmission of COVID-19,” Katie Smallwood, a WHO emergency official, told
reporters.
“This gives us a very good indication that a very
significant proportion of this excess deaths is linked and due to COVID-19,”
she added.
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