Bangladesh Medical Team Claims To Have Developed New Drug For Coronavirus

As the world is researching to find an effective drug for deadly coronavirus which has claimed more than 3 lakh lives, a Bangladeshi medical team has claimed that their have found the combination of two widely used drugs that has got them astounding results in curing COVID-19 patients.

This much awaited good news comes at a time when the whole world is desperately waiting for a remedy to the deadly coronavirus.

"We have got astounding results. Out of 60 COVID-19 patients, all recovered as the combination of the two drugs were applied," said Professor Dr Md Tarek Alam, the head of medicine department at private Bangladesh Medical College Hospital (BMCH) as per Times Now report.

Dr Alam, a reputed clinician in Bangladesh; along with his team used antiprotozoal medicine called Ivermectin in a single dose with Doxycycline, which is an antibiotic, that brought great result in curing the patients with COVID-19. He also claimed that the drug developed by them, help the patients recover from the virus within 4 days, and that there were no side effects of it. 

"My team was prescribing the two medicines only for coronavirus patients, most of them initially reporting with respiratory problems with related complaints, later to be tested COVID-19 positive. We first ask them to be tested for COVID-19 and when found coronavirus positive we apply the drugs . . . they are recovering within four days. The repeated or second tests, in line with the procedure, reconfirmed them COVID-19 negative in all the cases under the research which found the combination to have no side effects on patients either, he said," he added.

Bangladesh has reported 20,995 coronavirus cases with a total of 314 people passing away. While, globally the virsu has claimed the lives of 312,115 people while infected over 4,650,793, according to Johns Hopkins University.