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On Monday, equities plunged in their worst session since September amid a surge in Covid-19 cases across the country.
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 Gold futures early Tuesday hold steady as indications for a tepid rebound in equities, following Monday's stock-market rout due to rising COVID-19 cases, cause some pause in bullion buying.
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 The global tally for confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 climbed above 43.5 million on Tuesday, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University, while the death toll rose to 1.16 million. The U.S. has the highest case total at 8.7 million and deaths at 225,735. The U.S. has averaged 71,000 new cases a day in the last week, it's highest for a 7-day period since the start of the outbreak, the New York Times reported.
Brazil has the second highest death toll at 157,397 and is third by cases at 5.4 million. India is second in cases with 7.9 million, and third in deaths at 119,502. Mexico has the fourth highest death toll at 89,171 and ninth highest case tally at 895,326. The U.K has 45,088 deaths, the highest in Europe and fifth highest in the world, and 897,740 cases.
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 Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) said Monday that a trial of its antibody treatment for use in hospitalized COVID-19 patients has come to an end as the treatment is unlikely to help such patients. What Happened: The one of its kind study -- conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health -- was evaluating the efficacy of bamlanivimab, according to a statement issued by the company.Eli Lilly said that trial data has led to the recommendation that the treatment is unlikely to help hospitalized COVID-19 patients recover from an advanced stage of the disease.Other studies investigating bamlanivimab will continue, including an NIH-sponsored study evaluating the efficacy of the treatment in mild-to-moderate COVID-19 cases and the company's own Phase 2 trial in people recently diagnosed with COVID-19 in a non-hospitalized setting.Why It Matters: The Indianapolis, Indiana-based drug giant said it has submitted for an emergency use authorization for bamlanivimab based on its own Phase 2 trial results.This month, the drugmaker halted the Phase 3 trial of its antibody treatment due to a "potential safety concern." It was reported earlier that the Eli Lilly plant being readied to make the antibody treatment for COVID-19 was found to have serious quality control problems by the United States Food and Drug Administration.President Donald Trump was administered a similar antibody treatment from Regeneron Pharmaceutic
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