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With a vaccine still far away, the WHO has called for a rapid increase in production of the steroid dexamethasone
Company says it has the capacity to produce up to 1 billion doses a year of its recombinant vaccine
Researchers and companies are testing six experimental shots in humans
3 Japanese universities along with pharma company work out test to detect coronavirus from saliva in about 25 minutes
Russia sees drop in number coronavirus cases, fatalities
Country has a total of 1,085,038 confirmed coronavirus cases
WHO had welcomed initial clinical trial results of dexamethasone from UK
Total cases now stand at 170,485, with 20,394 fatalities
Pandemic has killed more than 34,500 people in the country
Total cases reach over 165,000 as 5,662 new infections confirmed over the past 24 hours