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Covid-19 update: Six coronavirus patients survive after placental cell therapy

Richard Schilling, Deputy Clinical Director for Nightingale Hospital London, waiting for his first patient (Image: Twitter)

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  • Six critically ill Covid-19 patients in Israel have survived after being treated with placenta-based cell therapy.
  • Ministers are to start a review of the UK lockdown measures. But with Boris Johnson still in hospital, no change is expected.
  • A&E attendance was down almost a third last month, compared with March 2019. Calls to NHS 111 more than doubled.
  • The boss of a healthcare firm has promised to make 100,000 UK Covid-19 antigen tests by the end of this month.
  • A dispatch from New York’s front line, by intensive care doctor Qanta Ahmed.
  • Lancashire police have arrested two men suspected of licking their hands and wiping their saliva over meat and fresh food at a Sainsbury’s in Morecambe.
Six coronavirus patients survive after placental cell therapy

As the global hunt for Covid-19 treatments continues, an Israeli biotech company has said six critically ill coronavirus patients have been successfully treated with its placenta-based cell therapy.

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