World Health Organization officials are holding a press conference Friday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization , speaks during a news conference on the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, March 2, 2020.The first patients in a "historic" trial to test treatments for the coronavirus have been enrolled in Norway and Spain, World Health Organization officials announced Friday.
World health officials are testing four of the most promising drugs to fight COVID-19, including malaria medications chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, an antiviral compound called Remdesivir, a combination of HIV drugs Lopinavir and Ritonavir and a combination of those drugs plus interferon-beta. "There are no more than half a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 20,000 deaths. These are tragic numbers," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference at the organizations headquarters in Geneva. "But remember that more than 100,000 have recovered. We must fight, unite and ignite. We are one humanityt with one common enemy."
Tedros said a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 is still likely 12 to 18 months away.WHO has been has been working closely with the National Institutes of Health, which has been fast-tracking work with biotech company
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