KARACHI: *Pakistani Medical Experts claim discovering the anti coronavirusdrug.*
Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) medical experts have claimed onMonday that they have created a drug to treat patients suffering from thecoronavirus disease.
As per details, medical experts from the DUHS claimed that IntravenousImmunoglobulin (IVIG) can cure the COVID-19 patients.
Talking to ARY News Professor Muhammad Saeed Qureshi, member of theresearch team, said that Intravenous Immunoglobulin is a great developmentin the fight against novel coronavirus.
He said the globulin was manufactured with purified antibodies, obtainedfrom the recovered coronavirus patients. Professor Shaukat Ali, head of theresearch team, has termed the corona cure as a ray of hope amid thepandemic crisis.
On April 09, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) allowedclinical trials of blood plasma therapy to treat coronavirus patientslinkinthe country.
Plasma, the fluid in blood teeming with antibodies post-illness, hasalready proven effective in small studies to treat infectious diseasesincluding Ebola and SARS.
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The announcement was made by Special Assistant to PM on Health, Dr ZafarMirza link, here today. “The DRAPhas also approved local manufacturing of the raw material of theanti-malarial drug, chloroquine.”
As of April 13, confirmed coronavirus cases reached 5,374 in the country as93 people have died from the infection till to date, according to thenational dashboard.
According to the available statistics, 336 cases have been reported in thecountry during the last 24 hours.
Punjab has the highest number of infections up to 2,594, 1,411 in Sindh,744 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 230 in Balochistan, 224 in Gilgit-Baltistan(GB), 131 in Islamabad and 40 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
