Covid-19 Breakthrough: Australian Researchers find Antidote

World Health Organization (WHO) had declared Covid-19 (coronavirus), a global pandemic and the whole world is facing severe problems due to it. In a major breakthrough towards finding a solution to the Covid-19 (coronavirus), a global pandemic that shook the entire world and paralyzed the global economy as well as the travel and tourism industry, a team of Australian researchers says that, they have found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of this month. The effective treatment for this global pandemic would help the travel industry that has been adversely impacted – to resurface.

Professor David Paterson, Director, Center for Clinical Research, University of Queensland said that they have seen two such drugs which are used to treat other conditions wipe out the virus in test tubes. He also said, one of the medications, given to some of the first people to test positive for coronavirus in Australia, had been already resulted in ‘disappearance of the virus’ and complete recovery from the deadly infection.

Professor Paterson, who is also an infectious disease physician at theRoyal Brisbane and Women Hospital, said that it was not a stretch to label the drugs ‘a treatment or a cure’. “It’s a potentially effective treatment. Patients would end up with no viable novel coronavirus in their system at all after the end of therapy.” 

The drugs are both already registered and available in the country. “What we want to do at the moment is a large clinical trial across the country, looking at 50 hospitals, and what we are going to compare is one particular drug, versus another drug, versus the combination of the two drugs,” Professor said. The positive experiences in the fight against novel coronavirus have already been recorded overseas, citing Singapore and China.

One of the two drugs is an HIV drug and the other is an anti-malaria drug, which is called as chloroquine, which is very rarely used and ‘kept on the shelf now’ due to resistance to malaria. He said the researchers want to study them in a very meaningful way, against the novel coronavirus to ‘try and alleviate that anxiety of countrymen’. “There have already been patients treated with these in the country and there is been successful outcomes but it has not been done in a controlled or a comparative way,” Professor Paterson added.

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