Medicine Approved For Covid 19. The approval was received from the Institutional Ethics Committees (IEC) (Representational) An Ayurvedic medicine developed by Pankajakasthuri Herbal Research Foundation, a renowned Ayurvedic organisation from Kerala, has been approved for clinical trials on Covid-19 infected adults by CTRI. The Clinical trials Registry of India is the apex body under the ICMR for clinical trials. Russia will start giving its first drug approved to treat Covid-19 to patients next week, its state financial backer told Reuters, a move it hopes will ease strains on the health system and speed. The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a specific traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for treating COVID-19 patients. A message that is being circulated on apps like Viber.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has insisted that it is yet to approve any herbal medicine for the treatment of COVID-19. The Director of Public Affairs of the. No herbal medicine has been approved for COVID-19 – NAFDAC. July 31, 2020. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has insisted that it is yet to approve any herbal medicine for the treatment of COVID-19. The Director of Public Affairs of the agency, Dr Abubakar Jimoh, in an interview with our correspondent, said a.
As COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, sickens hundreds of thousands worldwide, the race is on to find a drug that might help save severely ill patients.
Chloroquine, an existing medicine, is under assessment in more than 100 patients at over ten hospitals in Beijing and Guangdong province. Plans for an additional study in Hunan province are underway. Meanwhile, Gilead’s drug is said to be in studies at more than ten medical institutions in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak. A Facebook post has gone viral with the claim that the Tanzanian government has approved a herbal medicine called Covidol, which will cure patients suffering from Covid-19. India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the Tanzanian government has not approved the medicine as a Covid-19 cure. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that adults with severe COVID-19 infections do not seem to benefit from the drug treatment and there was no clinical improvement. The FDA have not approved either of these medications for treating COVID-19, but they issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine on March 28, 2020.
