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Coronavirus: WHO welcomes research breakthrough, Beijing concerned

British researchers announced Tuesday that they have made "a major breakthrough" in the treatment of seriously ill patients with Covid-19, at a time when China is facing a worrying outbreak of the disease in Beijing.

Officials in the UK clinical trial Recovery have discovered that a steroid drug, dexamethasone, reduces mortality in the most severely ill by a third.

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