Coronavirus update: Hopes for trial of common steroid shown to reduce deaths | News Breakfast

Dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among COVID-19 patients in what British scientists have hailed as a "major breakthrough".

00:00 - British scientists announce Dexamethasone can save the lives of the most seriously ill patients.

02:24 - Jesse Dorsett joins News Breakfast with more about Dexamethasone, Victorian virus cases, and New Zealand recording its first new cases in almost a month.

04:47 - Fears of a second wave in China after a spike of 100 new cases in Beijing linked to a wholesale food market.

05:12 - Chair of the NSW Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Dr Charlotte Hespe on the rise in employers demanding some employees provide "testing certificates" to prove they don't have coronavirus.

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