{"id":383018,"date":"2021-08-11T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=383018"},"modified":"2021-08-11T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T17:56:12","slug":"who-announces-three-new-drugs-for-covid-19-clinical-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=383018","title":{"rendered":"WHO announces three new drugs for COVID-19 clinical trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) made the announcement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The therapies \u2014 artesunate, imatinib and infliximab \u2014 will be tested on hospitalised COVID-19 patients in 52 countries under the Solidarity PLUS programme.<\/p>\n<p>There have been over 203 million cases of the disease recorded globally as of Wednesday, according to WHO.<\/p>\n<p>The world hit the 200 million mark last week, just six months after cases passed 100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a press conference in Geneva, WHO\u2019s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, underscored the vital need to find more effective and accessible coronavirus therapeutics.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe already have many tools to prevent, test for and treat COVID-19, including oxygen, dexamethasone and IL-6 blockers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we need more, for patients at all ends of the clinical spectrum, from mild to severe disease. And we need health workers that are trained to use them in a safe environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three drugs were chosen by an independent panel for their potential in reducing the risk of death in people hospitalised for coronavirus.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments against COVID-19. The World Health Organisation (WHO) made the announcement on Wednesday. The therapies \u2014 artesunate, imatinib and infliximab \u2014 will be tested on hospitalised COVID-19 patients in 52 countries under the Solidarity PLUS programme. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,1968],"class_list":["post-383018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}