The Philippines and Japan have begun discussing clinical trials involving an anti-flu drug which may be used against the coronavirus disease, the Department of Health discloses
[Translation: We also have a trial we will work on. This is for a drug, the Avigan but we are still at the initial stages of coordination.]
A clinical trial is a study on how a medicine affects patients who have a certain condition. Earlier, officials said President Rodrigo Duterte spoke with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, saying the Philippines is ready to join a clinical trial for Avigan. The country has been working on local and joint international efforts on finding a drug which can cure COVID-19. The University of the Philippines and the Philippine General Hospital got the go signal to start a clinical trial on
, which involves using the blood plasma of a patient who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing it to another patient, hoping that the antibodies the recovered patient had produced would help the sick patient get better.Naumpisahan sa ibang mga pasyente, at meron ho silang mga ni-rena kumpleto para masabi na talagang epektibo[Translation: The trial has started on some patients and they have reported good news but that is still not enough evidence to say that it is indeed effective.
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