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Major coronavirus breakthrough as UK scientists find first drug to stop people dying

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British scientists have found the first drug to stop people dying from Covid-19 which will be rolled out on the NHS from tomorrow.

Breakthrough research has shows a common steroid given to coronavirus patients could have saved between 4,000 and 5,000 lives in the UK.

A third fewer patients on ventilators died when given dexamethasone compared to those given standard NHS care. Leading scientists running the RECOVERY trial say the £6 drug will now become the standard of care for all Covid-19 patients on oxygen in hospitals.

Chief investigator Peter Horby, of Oxford University, said: “This is the only drug that has so far been shown to decrease mortality, and it reduced it significantly. “It is a major breakthrough.” The clinical trial gave

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