Interim Results from COVID-19 Drug Trials Expected in Next Two Weeks: WHO

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes that the interim results from clinical trials of drugs that might be effective in treating COVID-19 patients can be expected within the next two weeks.

WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that nearly 5,500 patients in 39 countries have been recruited into the solidarity trial so far.

The WHO has urged the countries to put up a fight now during a peak in the current wave of the coronavirus pandemic rather than focusing on when a second wave might come.

Dr. Mike Ryan, Head of the WHO’s emergency program said the world will be much better at fighting a second wave, if people can learn the lessons of fighting the first wave.