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: Synairgen plc (LSE: SNG), the respiratory company developing inhaled interferon beta (IFN-beta) for the treatment of severe viral lung infections, today announces results from the Home Cohort of its SG016 Phase II trial of SNG001 in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients and data from the combined analysis of the Hospital and Home Cohorts.
SNG001 is a formulation containing IFN-beta for nebulisation, allowing it to be delivered directly into patients’ lungs. A number of studies have reported that the SARS-CoV-2 virus suppresses natural production of IFN-beta and prevents induction of anti-viral responses by infected cells. Furthermore, some people have deficiencies in antiviral IFN signalling that make them more vulnerable to spread of the virus from the nose into the lungs where it can cause severe breathing difficulties. These findings provide a rationale to deliver IFN-beta directly to the surface epithelial cells of the lungs, the primary site of virus infection in the lungs, to pr
NO patients with coronavirus have died in Hampshire for two days. Data released by NHS England today has showed that no deaths have been recorded in the county since April 28. It leaves the county s total to 1,907 deaths since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. University Hospital Southampton remains at 483 deaths and Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust remains at 439. Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Trust have also recorded 15 and 58 deaths respectively since the start of the pandemic. Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust remains at 911 deaths.
By Press Association 2021
Health workers stand on the back of ambulance as they transport patients at the Jumbo COVID-19 field hospital in Mumbai, India
Activists and charities have called for donations and “moral support”, as India battles with shortages of beds and oxygen and a spiralling coronavirus death toll.
Charities including the British Red Cross, ActionAid, Oxfam India and Save the Children are providing aid and medical equipment, while several Britons with family members in India have travelled there to assist them.
Sneha Krishnan, whose mother has been on the front lines in India, said that she is afraid many Indian people “will fall through the cracks” of aid provided.
By Press Association 2021
Health workers stand on the back of ambulance as they transport patients at the Jumbo COVID-19 field hospital in Mumbai, India
Activists and charities have called for donations and “moral support”, as India battles with shortages of beds and oxygen and a spiralling coronavirus death toll.
Charities including the British Red Cross, ActionAid, Oxfam India and Save the Children are providing aid and medical equipment, while several Britons with family members in India have travelled there to assist them.
Sneha Krishnan, whose mother has been on the front lines in India, said that she is afraid many Indian people “will fall through the cracks” of aid provided.
By Press Association 2021
Health workers stand on the back of ambulance as they transport patients at the Jumbo COVID-19 field hospital in Mumbai, India
Activists and charities have called for donations and “moral support”, as India battles with shortages of beds and oxygen and a spiralling coronavirus death toll.
Charities including the British Red Cross, ActionAid, Oxfam India and Save the Children are providing aid and medical equipment, while several Britons with family members in India have travelled there to assist them.
Sneha Krishnan, whose mother has been on the front lines in India, said that she is afraid many Indian people “will fall through the cracks” of aid provided.