Chinese authorities have issued guidelines recommending Roche’s anti-inflammation drug Actemra to combat severe complications caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus.
There has been a political dimension to the coronavirus outbreak – there were the accusations of a cover-up by Chinese authorities around its epicentre in Wuhan – and in the
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