At least 81 Filipino COVID-19 patients are participating in an international trial of possible drugs for the severe respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told an online press briefing on Thursday that the participants were patients in 24 hospitals across the country.Earlier, the Department of Health said 500 slots had been allocated to the Philippines in the World Health Organization’s “Solidarity Trial,” a search for drugs that could be used to treat COVID-19.
More than 100 countries are taking part in the trial, a study of the safety and effectiveness of four possible drugs for COVID-19—remdesivir, under research for the treatment of other coronaviruses; the anti-HIV lopinavir or ritonavir, or the combination of these two; interferon; and the antimalarial chloroquine.
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