Brazil reports a new 24-hour record death toll, bringing the total number killed to more than 34,000. FMTNews Coronavirus
June 5, 2020 4:49 PM
In the latest case, the medical journal The Lancet retracted a study that raised safety fears about hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by US President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19, after the paper’s authors said they were no longer confident in underlying data provided by a Chicago-based healthcare analytics firm.
Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has fiercely criticised coronavirus stay-at-home measures, even as the number of infections and deaths continues to soar, arguing that they are needlessly hurting the economy. Looking to give the pummeled eurozone economies a massive boost, the European Central Bank added €600 billion to its emergency bond-buying scheme.
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