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FCT shuts down all schools from Friday over Corona Virus The FCT administration has stated that all Schools in FCT should close by tomorrow Friday 20th, 2020. This is to forestall any case of corona infection among school pupils. A statement issued by the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (FCT) also stated that students should not be in school from Monday 23rd and that lost time will be catered for subsequently. Details Later.

A Promising Treatment for Coronavirus Fails Researchers had hoped that antiviral drugs would help patients, but a new study from China said that one antiviral drug combination didn’t work. A study of 199 adults in China using the drug H.I.V. Kaletra showed no benefit in treating coronavirus. Credit... Geoff Robins/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By  Michael  Nnamdi  Antiviral drugs that had held promise as a potential treatment for the coronavirus did not work in one of the first major studies in seriously ill patients, researchers from China reported on Wednesday. “No benefit was observed,” the researchers wrote in  The New England Journal of Medicine. The study tested Kaletra, a combination of two antiviral medicines, lopinavir and ritonavir, that are normally used to treat H.I.V. There is no proven drug treatment for the new coronavirus, and doctors around the world have been desperately testi...