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8:00 am – GPs still prescribe unproven corona drugs

Despite previous warnings, a group of GPs continues to prescribe corona patients medications whose effectiveness has not been proven, the AD writes. The Healthcare and Youth Inspectorate (IGJ) warns of potentially dangerous side effects and announces an investigation.

A group of doctors around the Limburg GP Rob Elens still prescribes the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine and the anti-scab drug ivermectin to corona patients. This confirms entrepreneur Evert de Blok, who set up a platform together with Elens on which an alternative treatment for corona is promoted.

According to De Blok, there is a ‘teleteam’ of doctors behind the platform who can write prescriptions. According to him, six hundred patients would already have been helped on hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in this way.

6:00 am – Slight decrease in daily number of German corona infections

In Germany, the number of new corona infections again fell slightly compared to the day before. In the past 24 hours, 16,033 new cases were registered, reports the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German counterpart of the RIVM.

That is slightly less than on Friday, when 17,482 new infections were reported. On Thursday, the RKI reported 17,504 new infections, the largest increase in 24 hours since January 22. In total, more than 2.6 million infections have now been registered in Germany. The death toll from Covid-19 has risen to 74,565 with 207 deaths.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that Germany will use the Russian corona vaccine Sputnik-V if it is approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Merkel stated that Germany should use all vaccines that are allowed on the European market.

The chancellor also announced that he was willing to be vaccinated with the vaccine from AstraZeneca, about which concerns had arisen because of possible side effects. A number of European countries stopped injecting the drug, including Germany. Berlin has now resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca vaccine, after the EMA ruled earlier this week that the drug is safe.

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