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Didi Raoul, director of the Mediterranean Institute for Infectious Diseases in Marseille, explained that the fatality rate of the virus remains low when infected people receive treatment.
Raoul added that people who die from the disease “Covid-19” already have a “short term” in life, which means they had a higher risk of death compared to others.
The controversial professor defended the use of chloroquine, saying that the use of this drug helps reduce the death rate by 50 percent among the groups most vulnerable to complications from “Covid 19”.
The use of “chloroquine”, which was originally used against “malaria”, has sparked a lot of controversy in the medical field, after some people alerted people to serious health complications, such as unwanted effects on the heart.
But the French doctor defended the use of “chloroquine”, while health systems in several countries adopted it to treat patients with the Corona virus, especially in the absence of a drug or vaccine for the disease.
The French doctor’s reassurance comes as several countries are witnessing an increase described as “worrisome” in new infections from the emerging corona virus, but deaths have remained stable.
The world hopes to launch a safe vaccine for the coronavirus in order to continue to ease the restrictions that were previously imposed, in order to slow the spread of the emerging coronavirus that appeared in China, in late 2019, and then turned into a pandemic global.
Pessimistic expectations
And on Monday, the WHO Regional Director for Europe announced that the organization expects an increase in the number of deaths from Covid-19 in Europe during the coming months of October and November.
In an interview with Agence France-Presse, Hans Kluge said that the next October and November would be “the two hardest months in the face of the epidemic.”
“It will get more difficult,” Kluge added, noting that “next October and November we will see an increase in deaths.”
Kluge’s comments came as the total number of new coronavirus infections in the world approaches 29 million people, after the world recorded the largest daily increase in the number of cases of the virus that causes the Covid epidemic. -19.
Reuters statistics showed that more than 28.93 million people have been infected with the Coronavirus worldwide, while the total number of deaths from the Covid-19 epidemic has reached 921 437 cases.
