Hundreds of experts to meet in Geneva next week to set research and development priorities for coronavirus drugs, diagnostics and vaccines – WHO
In this file photo, funeral parlour staff members in protective suits help a colleague with disinfection after they transferred a body at a hospital, following the outbreak of a new coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 30, 2020.
"There are no proven effective therapeutics for novel coronavirus," Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO emergencies programme, told a news conference. "We want to bring the best minds, people who have experience in this so come around a comprehensive research agenda around coronavirus," she said.
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