Health Authorities Reveal Update On Number Of Recovered COVID-19 Patients
NUMBER OF RECOVERED COVID-19 PATIENTS – China’s National Health Commission and the Health Commission of Hubei Province had revealed the latest number of recovered coronavirus patients.
Recently, a drug called Favilavir, formerly known as Fapilavir, was approved for marketing. The antiviral drug has been shown to be effective against the novel coronavirus or COVID-19.
This would be the first anti-novel coronavirus drug approved for marketing by the National Medical Products Administration since the outbreak began.
The drug was created by Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Company. With this, health authorities expect the drug to play a pivotal role in preventing and treating the virus outbreak.
Meanwhile, the number of recovered coronavirus patients now stands at 12,712 according to Wordometers which compiles data from reports within Hubei through NHC and Hubei’s Health commission.
According to a report, Favilavir is one of the three drugs that have shown significant results in treating COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the China National Biotec Group had announced that virus-neutralizing antibodies were extracted from the plasma of recovered patients from the COVID-19.
In addition to this, experiments showed that the antibodies were found to be effective in killing the new coronavirus. The plasma extracted was used to treat 11 patients in critical condition and had significant results.
Another drug with the potential of treating the virus was called “remdesivir“. This drug is set to be used to 761 infected patients of 2019 nCoV in Wuhan China its clinical trial. Reportedly, this medicine is also good for treating SARS and MERS Coronavirus as well as the Ebola infections.
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