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FDA approves Gilead’s Veklury remdesivir for COVID-19

The US Food and Drug Administration announced on 22nd October that it has approved the first COVID treatment, remdesivir. The drug is approved for patients over 12 years of age, weighing at least 40 kilograms. Only the patients who require hospitalization can be...

SpaceX Crew Dragon successfully docks with the International Space Station

SpaceX Crew Dragon, commercially-made spacecraft, has finally arrived to the orbiting laboratory at the International Space Station after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On Sunday, NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken made the space trip successful while docking at ISS...

Apple donating over 20 million face masks, producing protective face shields to fight against COVID-19

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, has said that the tech giant donated 20 million N95 respiratory face masks to help combat the ongoing activities against coronavirus pandemic in the United States. The N95 masks, recommended by CDC, protect against most airborne particles, including...

FDA approves Abbott ID NOW test kit

Food and Drug Administration - FDA - approves portable testing kit 'ID NOW' by global pharma giant Abbott Laboratories for its test kit that detects and gives the final results for positive coronavirus testing in just 5 minutes. The testing device has received...

Elon Musk: Tesla New York Gigafactory will reopen to produce ventilators amid COVID-19

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, says that he will reopen the Buffalo, New York, factory for the production of ventilators to help the people of New York to fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Tesla is already working with the medical...

Elon Musk ships 1,200 ventilators to California hospitals

SpaceX and Tesla chief Elon Musk has delivered 1,255 ventilators, an intensive medical machine needed for severe coronavirus patients, to hospitals in California to help fight against coronavirus. Governor Gavin Newsom, California, and the state health officials provided acknowledgment regarding Elon Musk giving away...

Coronavirus Updates: World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a pandemic

The World Health Organization - a specialized agency of the United Nations concerned with the world's public health - has officially declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. Since the first detection, COVID-19 virus has infected more than 127,000 people across the globe. The...

FDA expedites diagnostic testing for coronavirus

The U.S. government is working with the Food and Drugs Administration - FDA to strongly examine the cause of novel coronavirus. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC being the national partner are helping in closely monitoring an outbreak of the virus.  Since...

NASA awarded CAPSTONE CubeSat contract to Rocket Lab

NASA has chosen Rocket Lab to launch its lunar CubeSat mission in early 2021. According to a press release by NASA, the CAPSTONE CubeSat mission is contracted against a fixed price of $9.95 million and will facilitate NASA’s planned orbiting outpost Lunar Gateway...

Google acquired medical data of millions under secret project ‘Nightingale’

Google has covertly acquired health care records of millions of patients, without their approval. It has been revealed that Google and Ascension, a Non-profit Catholic health care provider, were jointly involved in a secret data-gathering project called "Nightingale". The report was also quoted that neither the...

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