By ivangonrom
February 18, 2020 10:52 AM
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“We are preparing for clinical trials with HIV drugs in the new coronavirus,” an official said.
JAPAN,
Tokyo.- Japan announced that it will try to fight the coronavirus using medications
against HIV, in an attempt to contain the number of infected. The
information was provided by announcing that the number of infected people rose to
519, with 454 cases on the Diamond Princess quarantine cruise.
“We are preparing for clinical trials with HIV drugs in the new coronavirus,” said chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, a government spokesman. The trial will be carried out mainly in the Hospital of the Center of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine.
Suga did not mean how long it could take the approval of the medicine. Doctors in Thailand said they seemed to be successful in treating severe cases of coronavirus with a combination of flu medications and HIV medications. It would still be necessary to confirm the effect of this treatment.
According to
reports, the new approach that combines the flu medicine
oseltamivir, also known as Tamiflu, as well as lopinavir and ritonavir,
They improved the condition of several patients. Among those who tried that
combination is a 70-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan.
A report
from a group of Chinese scientists in the magazine The Lancet, published last month, said a combination of lopinavir
and ritonavir, anti-HIV drugs, targets an enzyme used by
HIV and the coronavirus to cut proteins when they make additional copies
themselves.
Tuesday 18th
February, the Tokyo metropolitan government reported about three new infections
In the center of the capital. Those infected are two men in serious condition,
one in his 50s and the other in his 80s, and a man in his 20s.
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