Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia hope to start human trials by the end of this month to see if the coronavirus can be stopped by drugs made for HIV and malaria.
Have they found a cure for the coronavirus? Australian researchers claim two existing drugs could ‘cure’ COVID-19 after patients they tested responded ‘very well’ to treatment
- Researchers believe they’ve found a cure for the latest strain of coronavirus
- The disease has killed more than 6,500 people around the world since January
- Queensland researcher claims HIV and anti-malaria drugs may be the cure
- Currently patients cannot be cured and only supported while they recover
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He explained that when the HIV medication lopinavir/ritonavir was given to people infected with the coronavirus in Australia it led to the ‘disappearance of the virus’.
‘That first wave of Chinese patients we had (in Australia), they all did very, very well when they were treated with the HIV drug,’ Professor Paterson said.
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