Covid-19 roundup: Italy death toll of­fi­cial­ly tops Chi­na; US com­pa­ny plans roll out of at-home spec­i­men col­lec­tion kits

In a first, Chi­na re­port­ed on Thurs­day that there were no new lo­cal­ly-trans­mit­ted coro­n­avirus cas­es for the first time since the pan­dem­ic be­gan, while Pres­i­dent Trump im­plied treat­ments to fight the coro­n­avirus scourge were ap­proved and/or just around the cor­ner, on­ly to be po­lite­ly cor­rect­ed by FDA chief Stephen Hahn, who un­der­scored da­ta on safe­ty and ef­fi­ca­cy were still to come. As of Fri­day, glob­al cas­es hit 244,500.

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