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The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that dexamethasone is the only effective drug against severe COVID-19. He confirmed the information that four known drugs have shown no effect in coronavirus patients.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said there is only one seriously effective drug against COVID-19 at this time: dexamethasone. About it October 16 said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a briefing that to transmit on the organization’s Twitter page.
“Currently, the corticosteroid dexamethasone remains the only therapeutic agent that has been shown to be effective against COVID-19 in patients with severe disease,” Gebreyesus said.
Confirmed the information that the interim results of the world’s largest study of drugs for the treatment of COVID-19, Coordinated by WHO, showed that remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, interferon, and lopinavir had no effect on mortality or COVID-19 disease among patients worldwide.
On May 1, the Ebola drug remdesivir was approved in the United States for hospitalized adults and children with COVID-19 who are in serious condition.
Remdesivir is the first drug approved for use in the EU for coronavirus infection in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age from June 25.
The drug remdesivir is included in the Ukrainian protocol for the treatment of coronavirus infection COVID-19, Health Minister Maxim Stepanov said on April 19. The Ministry of Health wants to buy this drug and bring it to Ukraine through diplomatic channels.
An outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus infection began in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic.
According to the US Johns Hopkins University, the total number of infected in the world has reached almost 39.1 million, of which almost 26.9 million have recovered and 1.1 million have died.
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