| | | | | Britain has imposed a stringent lockdown on the English city of Leicester following a local flare-up of the novel coronavirus, overshadowing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's attempts to nudge the country back to normality. | | |
| | | Zynerba Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday its experimental cannabinoid gel, Zygel, did not meet main and key secondary goals of a pivotal trial in patients with a neurological disorder called Fragile X syndrome. | | |
| | | Several Indian cities prepared to extend their lockdowns to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, as daily cases in the country remained close to 20,000. | | |
| | | The Indian government will extend a free foodgrain distribution scheme for 800 million people amid the ongoing pandemic until the end of November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a national address on Tuesday. | | |
| | | The United States saw a 46% increase in new cases of COVID-19 in the week ended June 28 compared to the previous seven days, with 21 states reporting positivity test rates above the level that the World Health Organization has flagged as concerning. | | |
| | | Republican and Democratic U.S. senators called for a government analysis of foreign influence in the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain on Tuesday, saying the coronavirus pandemic has exposed an over-reliance on China and other countries for the production of essential drugs. | | |
| | | U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday will get another chance to grill the heads of the Federal Reserve and Treasury over the effectiveness of the nearly $3 trillion in emergency aid doled out to stem the economic fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic. | | |
| | | A global trial designed to test whether the anti-malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can prevent infection with COVID-19 is to restart after being approved by British regulators. | | |
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| | | India's Piramal Glass Pvt Ltd has seen a 30% jump in sales of specialty vials used to bottle medicines in the June quarter, led by a surge in demand as more drugs are being made to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior executive told Reuters. | | |
| | | A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential "pandemic virus", a study said, although experts said there is no imminent threat. | | |
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