Coro­n­avirus up­date: Trump signs $8.3B spend­ing bill in­to law; Pfiz­er con­sid­ers mR­NA vac­cine pact with BioN­Tech

→ As the glob­al case count of in­fec­tions at­trib­uted to the new coro­n­avirus climbed to 100,000 and the WHO urged glob­al lead­ers to pull out all the stops, US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed in­to law an $8.3 bil­lion emer­gency spend­ing bill to con­front the out­break.

→ Af­ter re­veal­ing at a White House meet­ing that it’s screen­ing an in-house an­tivi­ral li­brary for a po­ten­tial covid-19 treat­ment, Pfiz­er told Reuters it is con­sid­er­ing work­ing with BioN­Tech on an mR­NA vac­cine. The two com­pa­nies are al­ready al­lied on a flu vac­cine pro­gram.

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