WHO hailed UK’s new antiviral drug as “a lifesaving scientific breakthrough” in treating patients with COVID-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) hailed UK’s new antiviral drug as “a lifesaving scientific breakthrough” in treating patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
This, as experts in the UK said that dexamethasone, a low-dose steroid treatment, was a “major breakthrough” in fighting against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and was part of the biggest trial testing existing treatments in the world.
The said drug, according to BBC, could cut the risk of death by “a third” for COVID-19 patients on ventilators and “a fifth” for COVID-19 patients on oxygen.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, said that this was “great news”, and he congratulated the University of Oxford, the British government, as well as hospitals and patients in the UK who had contributed to the “lifesaving scientific breakthrough“.
According to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, there was a “genuine case” to celebrate their “remarkable” scientific achievement in the UK, adding that the British government had taken steps in order to ensure that they had enough supplies and even in the “event of a second peak”.
The British government already had 200,000 courses of the said drug in its stockpile and said that the NHS would make the said drug available to patients with coronavirus disease.
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