Small Island nations lacking access to basic medical equipment and supplies fear that once therapeutics and vaccines against the coronavirus are developed, they will not receive these drugs and vaccines, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said on Friday at a virtual briefing during the launch of the COVID-19 technology sharing pool

The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), which is in charge of the country's public health sector, said on Friday that the Latin American nation would temporarily halt the use of the antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, and the combination drug for HIV, Lopinavir-Ritonavir, as treatments for COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) does not advise the use of hydroxychloroquine for the coornavirus treatment outside randomized trials and without proper clinical supervision, Executive Director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme Michael Ryan said Wednesday

France on Wednesday officially banned hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 after a series of medical studies revealed that the malaria drug could be harmful