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Venezuela presented this Monday to the World Health Organization (WHO) the results of the drug it has developed and which, according to assures, “cancels” SARS-COV-2, name of the novel coronavirus that causes covid-19, executive vice president Delcy Rodríguez reported.
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“We formalized this study, this discovery before the WHO to initiate the corresponding international procedures, in view of the certification and registration of this very important and transcendental discovery”Rodríguez said in a statement to the media.
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President Nicolás Maduro announced this Sunday that Venezuelan scientists have “obtained a drug that completely cancels the (new) coronavirus” and in which the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC) has been studying for six months.
It is, according to the president, a molecule called TR-10 which “was totally isolated and subsequently confronted with the covid-19 virus” in a six-month study, which resulted in “100% annihilation of the virus”.
In this sense, Rodríguez assured this Monday that the discovery shows “the effective properties of this molecule on in vitro cells infected with COVID-19”. “Today, in the company of the Minister of Health and the Chancellor, we shared the results of the IVIC study with the representative of the (Pan American Health Organization) OPS and WHO”, he clarified. The objective is, as he underlined, to be able to “initiate the corresponding international procedures in view of the certification and registration of this important find”.
During the meeting with the WHO and OPS representative in Venezuela, Pier Paolo Balladelli, they also shared with him “other lines of research” on the “follow-up and development of this line of research that seeks the same results. “.
Venezuelan authorities yesterday confirmed 423 new cases of covid-19, with which 89,565 people are already infected with the new coronavirus that causes that disease, executive vice president Delcy Rodríguez reported. While the total death toll has risen to 773.
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