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The finding represents the first time any medication has been shown to improve outcomes against COVID-19, which has claimed more than 220,000 lives globally.

Princy Roy Mathew, who taught at the Abu Dhabi Indian School, succumbed to the disease on Wednesday after her condition worsened over the past few days.

Last month, President Donald Trump directed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to speed development of a vaccine, and administration officials have been meeting on the effort for three to four weeks, the report added.

Tehran and Washington have traded barbs over a spate of incidents in the past year involving their forces in the sensitive waters of the Gulf.

The new study found that contact tracing increased the speed at which new cases were confirmed by 2 days, an average of 5.5 days initially, reduced to 3.2 with contact tracing.

The information gap reflects Yemen's inability to detect, let alone repel, an infection humbling far wealthier nations.

China, where the virus was first detected late last year, has strenuously denied accusations from the US and others that it suppressed information about the outbreak.

Factories were under pressure from brands to meet export deadlines and feared the risk that billions in orders could be diverted to competing operations in countries like Vietnam or China.

China had been stipulating such extra approval at home since the end of March after several European countries complained that Chinese-made test kits were inaccurate.

Schools will reopen in September and the measures would be presented by the beginning of next week at the latest.

The order allowed the opening of some economic and commercial activities, which includes wholesale and retail shops in addition to malls between 9 am to 5 pm till May 13.

Protesters say the unity government agreement, which gives Netanyahu influence over the appointment of judges and legal officials, is meant to rescue Netanyahu from his legal troubles.

Rights activists and members of civil society have condemned the remarks made by religious leader Maulana Tariq Jamil on national television during Prime Minister Imran Khan's telethon.

Domenico Arcuri, the government's commissioner for the pandemic, says doing so is a gesture of solidarity and nearness and support to these places ever more at the epicenter of this great crisis.

In the first quarter of the year alone, the economy of Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, shrank by almost 40%, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.

The top US diplomat said Americans were angry over China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak and President Trump also feels the same way.