Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, a spokesman for Ministry of Health, that there is a change in the mechanism and strategy for dealing with the Corona virus, especially in terms of dealing with drugs that were taken by injection, to drugs that are taken by tablets, and there are two drugs once morest viruses that have obtained emergency use approval from the American Medicines Authority and the European Medicines Authority .
Abdel Ghaffar added, in a telephone interview to the “Today” program, with the media Sarah Hazem, via the dmc channel, that Egypt had contracted to import Corona medicine through the company to provide treatment for 20 thousand patients as a first stage, and it arrives during the last week of January, adding: “This drug The Corona vaccine is not indispensable, and there is a drug belonging to the American company Merck that has finished manufacturing the drug locally and obtained the approval of the Medicines Authority, and this drug prevents entry to hospitals and reduces death rates, but it has nothing to do with prevention or is a substitute for the vaccine.
And Hossam Abdel Ghaffar explained that the new drugs for Corona, experiments proved that their effect is very high in preventing hospitalization in case of infection with the virus, continuing: “There is a drug produced by AstraZeneca and Egypt contracted it through the purchasing authority to provide treatment for 50 thousand people, and it is expected that it will arrive in end of January.”
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