The human clinical trials have not yet been authorized and are to be taken over by the National Research Center affiliated with the Ministry of Higher Education, but one is ready to enter that phase and all have been included in the World Health Organization’s files as pending candidates for evaluation, according to the same source.
However, portfolio spokesman Khaled Megahed said the North African nation is constantly monitoring developments in the global drug market, to obtain any drugs or vaccines, and include them in treatment or preventive protocols.
Egypt, with 100 million inhabitants, detected some 78,000 cases of Covid-19 from mid-February to the present, of which more than 3,000 died and nearly 22,000 managed to overcome the lethal pneumonia.
According to the portfolio balances, in recent days there has been a slight reduction in infections compared to previous stages, judging by the results of daily counts.
Egyptian emergency consultant Sherif Wadie said the decline in Covid-19 infections reported by the Health Ministry may be due to greater awareness of the virus and how to deal with it, but authorities are not yet talking about a trend in this regard.
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