CDNTopStories: The trial will involve 45 patients, including suspected cases where the patients are showing symptoms of COVID-19, the severe respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
Patients are being selected for the clinical trial of virgin coconut oil as treatment for new coronavirus disease , Science Secretary Fortunato de la Peña said on Thursday.
The enrollment of patients for the 28-day trial in Santa Rosa City, Laguna province, is also under way, he said in the televised news briefing.The trial will involve 45 patients, including suspected cases where the patients are showing symptoms of COVID-19, the severe respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
The Food and Nutrition Institute will provide the meals for the patients, while the Philippine Coconut Authority will supply the unbranded VCO, aside from helping fund the research. The meals of those enrolled in the trial will be mixed with three tablespoons of VCO, De la Peña said. The Department of Science and Technology , De la Peña said, had also sent samples of the derivatives of the coconut oil to a laboratory abroad that has a collection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. “We need to see if, in vitro trials, the materials we sent would have a strong effect and would weaken the [effectiveness] of the virus,” he said.
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