GENEVA: The World Health Organization announced on Wednesday (Jun 3) that clinical trials of the drug hydroxychloroquine will resume as it ...
A pharmacy worker shows pills of hydroxychloroquine used to treat the coronavirus, at the CHR Centre Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle Hospital in Liege, Belgium. GENEVA: The World Health Organization announced on Wednesday that clinical trials of the drug hydroxychloroquine will resume as it searches for potential coronavirus treatments.
The executive group of the so-called Solidarity Trial - in which hundreds of hospitals across the world have enrolled patients to test several possible treatments for the novel coronavirus - took the decision as a precaution. "On the basis of the available mortality data, the members of the committee recommended that there are no reasons to modify the trial protocol.
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