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Anonymous ID: 822137 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:30 p.m. No.10362722   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2836 >>2843 >>3063 >>3325 >>3396

COVID-19 Melbourne live updates: Trump drug tested in Melbourne hospital

 

A controversial drug used by Donald Trump is being trialled in a Melbourne hospital, after hundreds of health care worker infections in Victoria.

 

A controversial drug used by Donald Trump is being trialled in a Melbourne hospital, after hundreds of health care worker infections in Victoria.

 

St Vincent’s Hospital is recruiting doctors and nurses to take part in a trial to see whether Hydroxychloroquine can stop them getting the coronavirus while treating patients.

 

The government’s coronavirus task force has recommend against using the drug for treating the disease or preventing its spread. However, a new trial run by the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, has been set up to test the drug on 2250 health care workers in Australia.

 

The trial will take place over a four month period and 40 staff members at the of hospital have already signed up. Half will be given the drug, the other a placebo.

 

“This will allow us to see if hydroxychloroquine is better than placebo in preventing COVID-19 and if hydroxychloroquine reduces the severity and duration of COVID-19 symptoms,” a spokesperson for the trial said.

 

St Vincent’s has also issued an urgent call to other states and even to New Zealand for more doctors and nurses to help fight COVID-19.

 

In an online advert by the hospital, St Vincent’s staff warn Victorians and their health system “have been hit hard by the pandemic and our hospitals are stretched to the limit”.

 

There are 753 active coronavirus cases linked to healthcare workers, with a total of 2563 professionals in the ­industry infected since the start of the pandemic.

 

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/live-coronavirus-victoria-melbourne-covid19-updates/live-coverage/2b717770403add940cfdf297b6590a3a

 

Australian MSM

Anonymous ID: 822137 Aug. 20, 2020, 3:42 p.m. No.10362905   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Germany, France & UK REJECT US push to reinstate UN sanctions on Iran

 

The US exited the Iran nuclear deal and therefore has no right to demand a ‘snapback’ of UN sanctions on Tehran, the foreign ministers of three European powers involved in the JCPOA said in response to Washington’s latest push.

 

“France, Germany and the United Kingdom, the so-called E3, note that the United States has not been a member of the JCPOA since their withdrawal from the agreement on May 8, 2018,” their respective foreign ministers Jean-Yves Le Drian,Heiko Maas and Dominic Raab said in a statement on Thursday.

 

Therefore, the E3 “cannot support” the US demand for UN sanctions against Iran to be reimposed, as it is “inconsistent” with their current efforts to implement the deal, the trio added.

 

JCPOA stands for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the name given to the 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated by the Obama administration, endorsed by all five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany.

 

Citing UNSC Resolution 2231, which codified the deal, US envoy to the UN Kelly Craft officially requested the “snapback” of sanctions on Thursday, accusing Iran of “significant non-compliance” with the deal. However, China has previously pointed out that the US is not eligible to make that request, having exited the treaty unilaterally. The E3 statement indicates the Europeans share Beijing’s stance on the issue.

 

The E3 statement came during the press conference US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was giving at the UN, declaring confidently that the rules of the Security Council are “straightforward” and will lead to the sanctions being restored.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/498592-us-iran-sanctions-un-europe/