the world health organization (who) declared ramdevpir most effective drug substance from COVID-19 and stopped testing the other three: of hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and ritonavir in their tests to find a drug for treatment of the virus. This is stated in the who statement released on July 4, RIA Novosti reported from Geneva.
At the end of four months who experts stated that the most effective of all tested drugs were only ramdevpir.
“Today, the who adopted a recommendation of the International steering Committee of Test of solidarity on the termination of the trials of hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir,” – said in a statement.
Ramdevpir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and ritonavir in various combinations, including interferon, participated in the first “Test of solidarity,” who holds from March 2020. The trial was attended by more than 4,5 thousand patients.
the Program Tests “solidarity” was launched by who on March 18 to communicate with different types of treatment COVID-19 in the world. It provides for the testing of various drugs against the virus and to identify the most effective ones. To exchange information on tests different treatment methods joined Argentina, Bahrain, Canada, France, Iran, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and Thailand. In total, the program involved more than 45 States.
