Australian scientists claim that drugs used to treat HIV and malaria might be used to address the novel coronavirus.
The discovery might be shared with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the hope the group may help efforts to diagnose and deal with the virus. Scientists in China have additionally recreated the virus and shared its genome sequence but not the virus itself.
Two medications showed promising results in human examinations
A crew of infectious disease experts at the University of Queensland in Brisbane say they have seen two current medications manage to wipe out COVID-19 infections.
Chloroquine - an anti-malarial drug, and HIV-suppressor - have both reportedly shown promising results in human exams and made the virus 'disappear' in inflamed patients.
The pills are being tested as researchers and doctors around the sector scramble to try to discover a vaccine, therapy, or treatment for the lethal virus.
Around 170,000 people throughout the globe have now been infected with the coronavirus, and over 6,500 have died.
After China controlled its unexpected outbreak, other countries were blindsided by using massive epidemics. In essence, almost 25,000 human beings have stuck it in Italy, around 14,000 in Iran, 8,000 in Spain, and more than 5,000 people in Germany and France.
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Hope of 'game-changer'
Queensland researcher, Professor David Paterson, stated he hopes to enroll humans in larger-scale pharmaceutical trials by the end of the month.
Professor Paterson, who also serves as an infectious disease physician in Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, said labeling the drugs as "treatment or a cure" wouldn't be a stretch.
He explained that when one of the medications - it is not clear which - was given to humans inflamed with the coronavirus in Australia, the treatment caused the 'disappearance of the virus.' Patterson told Australian news site news.Com.Au the approach might be a potentially effective remedy.
According to Patterson, patients would end up with no feasible coronavirus in their system at all after the end of the therapy. He added the team would want a huge scientific trial throughout Australia. To do that, they would be searching for 50 hospitals and compare one drug against any other medication and the aggregate of the two tablets.
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While the remedy has proven a success in some patients wearing COVID-19, Professor Paterson said trying out hadn't been undertaken in a controlled or measured way.
The drugs are both already registered and available in Australia, news.Com.Au reported. Researchers, given their history, claimed the medicine has a "long experience of being very well tolerated," and there are no unexpected side effects.
The decision to check the drug was first made after Chinese people in Australia recommended the remedy after hearing superb stories from sufferers in mainland China and Singapore.
Paterson said the first wave of Chinese patients they had in Australia did very well when they had been handled with the HIV drug.
