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This is the scene there now. a fifth teenager is guilty of killing 15—year—old keon lincoln, who was shot and stabbed outside his home in birmingham. an experimental pill to treat covid — new trial results show it can cut the risk of hospitalisation or death by nearly 90% in vulnerable adults. and gimme, gimme, gimme — new music that's been a long time coming. we speak to abba, on the day they release their first studio album in a0 years. the chairman of yorkshire county cricket club has resigned in the wake of its response to the racism experienced by azeem

So it's aimed at people who have already caught covid who might be vulnerable, elderly, have underlying health conditions — so we had the uk drugs regulator approving the first pill to treat covid in that way and today clinical trial results for a different pill, this time developed by the us drug company pfizer, and, again, they're very, very strong. so this one, if you give this pill in the trial within three to five days of catching covid, then it cuts the risk of hospitalisation in that vulnerable group by 89%, which is very positive. there were no deaths at all from covid in the group t...

Of a positive test. in terms of the vaccination programme, more than 9.3 million people have had their booster or third jab. the pharmaceutical manufacturer pfizer says that a clinical trial of a pill to treat covid—i9 shows that the drug is highly effective. the product, called paxlovid, achieved an 89% reduction in the risk of hospitalization or death among adults with coronavirus who are at high risk of to severe illness. our health correspondent jim reed told me more: we are starting to see the same thing this year but this time it's not vaccines, it is treatments. so it's aimed at peopl...

So we, you know, are trying to come to terms with thatl and so we just want closure. we still don't know why keon lincoln was killed but he has become another teenage casualty in a city that's lost too many young lives in recent years. phil mackie, bbc news, birmingham. the pharmaceutical manufacturer, pfizer, has said that a clinical trial of a new pill to treat covid—19 shows that the drug is highly effective. the product is called paxlovid, and it is reported to have achieved an 89% reduction in the risk of hospitalization or death — that's among adult patients with coronavirus who are ...

Medicine. this is the first covid pill. trial results suggest it can cut hospitalisations or deaths by half. the news of the efficacy of this particular antiviral is obviously very good news. the company, when they briefed us last night, had mentioned that they will be submitting their data to the fda imminently. the data are impressive. pills were given to 775 elderly or medically at—risk patients within five days of them showing coronavirus symptoms. the data from a phase three trial showed 7.3% of patients on the drug were hospitalised, compared to 14.1% of those who did not take the tabl...