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UK PRESS: Risk appetite has picked up slightly on BBC report at 0800ET/1300BST

that "a cheap and widely available drug called dexamethasone can help save the

lives of patients who are seriously ill with coronavirus." According to the

trial, led by a team from Oxford University, it cuts the risk of death by

one-third for patients on ventilators, and by one-fifth for those on oxygen.

- Its properties in fighting COVID were found as part of a larger trial to see

if existing treatments work against coronavirus.

- Importantly, "because it is cheap, it could also be of huge benefit in poor

countries struggling with high numbers of Covid-19 patients."