Frontrunners emerge in race for Covid-19 vaccine
Positive results from trials of several vaccine candidates have raised hopes that there is light at the end of the tunnel in the quest to curb a pandemic that has already killed 1.4 million
EU executive wants Health Union after fractured pandemic response
The European Commission has suggested forming a new European Health Union in order for all EU member states to collectively fight the COVID-19 Pandemic together.
In race for vaccine, safety trumps speed
The halting of clinical trials for one of the most advanced experimental Covid-19 vaccines shows the importance of safety in developing new medicines, experts say
The hunt for COVID-19 treatment, vaccines
Scientists around the world are scrambling to develop preventative vaccines and therapeutic treatments for COVID-19, with tests into dozens of drugs and hundreds of clinical trials
Multinationals in the time of virus: who wins, who loses?
The coronavirus pandemic, set to provoke a severe global recession this year, is hitting multinational companies disproportionately. But what sectors might succeed during the pandemic?
Medicine shortage looms over coronavirus-hit Europe
While the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, medicines used to deal with the symptoms of the disease are increasingly in critically short supply in Europe, the worst-hit continent
What no Brexit deal means for ‘Made in Germany’
German business is worried about bottlenecks in cross-Channel supply chains in the event of a hard Brexit.