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WHO Halts Trial Of Hydroxychloroquine In Covid-19 Patients

By Karima Shehu June 17, 2020 No Comments

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks next to Michael J. Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme during a news conference after a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in its large multi-country trial of treatments for COVID-19 patients had been halted after results from other trials showed no benefit.

“The hydroxychloroquine arm of the SOLIDARITY trial has been stopped,” WHO expert Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo told a news briefing.