The World Health Organization (WHO) accepted the Venezuelan antiviral Carvativir as an effective oral medicine to fight COVID-19.
This was reported by the Minister of Popular Power for National Trade, Dheliz Álvarez, on her Instagram account, @dhelizalvarez.
The minister expressed: “With great satisfaction, we inform that according to some studies carried out by laboratories authorized by the WHO, the Venezuelan antiviral passed all the required tests, to be recognized as a medicine in the national and international sphere.”
Carvativir was created by the Venezuelan researcher Raúl Ojeda and the Autonomous Intellectual Property Service (SAPI) took care of protecting it. The distribution of the drug was authorized by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
The head of the National Trade portfolio, highlighted: “Venezuela sets an example, with the establishment of an intellectual property system with humanistic principles, which strategically contribute to the development of the Homeland,” SAPI reported in a press release.
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