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GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) issued new clinical advice on Tuesday (January 26) for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, including those showing persistent symptoms after recovery, and also said it recommended the use of low-dose anticoagulants to prevent blood clots. .
“The other things in the guide that are new is that COVID-19 patients at home should have the use of pulse oximetry, which measures oxygen levels, so you can identify if something in the home is deteriorating and it would be better to receive hospital care. “WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said at a UN briefing in Geneva.
The WHO recommended that doctors place patients in the awake prone position, facing the front, which has been shown to improve oxygen flow, he said.
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“We also recommend, we suggest the use of low-dose anticoagulants to prevent blood clots from forming in the blood vessels. We suggest the use of lower doses rather than higher doses because higher doses can cause other problems,” he said Harris.
He added that a team of independent experts led by WHO, currently in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first human cases were detected in December 2019, will leave the quarantine in the next two days to continue their work with Chinese researchers in origins. virus.
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He declined to comment on reports of vaccine launch delays in the European Union. He said he did not have specific data and that WHO’s priority was for health workers in all countries to get vaccinated in the first 100 days of the year.
AstraZeneca, which developed its project with the University of Oxford, told the EU on Friday that it would not be able to meet agreed supply targets until the end of March.
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