A NEW drug is being tested by scientists at China’s Peking UniversityBeijing (AFP) - A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes
Beijing – A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt.
Sunney Xie, director of the university’s Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, told AFP that the drug has been successful at the animal testing stage. He said he hopes that the drug will be ready for use later this year and in time for any potential winter outbreak of the virus, which has infected 4.8 million people around the world and killed more than 315,000.
China already has five potential coronavirus vaccines at the human trial stage, a health official said last week.Scientists have also pointed to the potential benefits of plasma – a blood fluid – from recovered individuals who have developed antibodies to the virus enabling the body’s defences to attack it.
Xie said his researchers had “an early start” since the outbreak started in China before spreading to other countries.
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