Soon in Russia in clinical practice will begin to use the five domestic drugs for the treatment of patients with coronavirus. This was stated by the Minister of health of Michael Murashko, reports TASS.
He said that development will be put into clinical practice in the coming weeks, and some of them will replace foreign medicines. “They really change the picture of disease,” — said the head of the Ministry of health, adding that one of the new drugs has antiviral activity.
Earlier, head of the laboratory of genomic engineering MIPT Pavel Volchkov argued that the really effective cure COVID-19 appears to fall.
Now scientists Regeneron Pharmaceuticals engaged in the creation of a drug that helps the immune system to fight the disease through artificial addition of antibodies.
According to Volchkova, at this time medicine is in the stone age concerning the “acute phase viruses” (influenza and other coronaviruses).
According to may 13th, in Russia the coronavirus was diagnosed in 242 thousand inhabitants, 2212 people died. The country came in second place for the number infected.
