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1,315 COVID-19 patients join WHO Solidarity Treatment Trial

Published March 17, 2021, 6:17 PM Over 1,300 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients have participated in the Solidarity Treatment Trial of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) said Wednesday, March 17. DOST-PCHRD Executive Director Dr. Jaime C. Montoya cited the Philippines’ active participation in ongoing global efforts to halt the pandemic, such as the World Health Organization’s Solidarity Trials for COVID-19 treatments. “As of January 31, 2021, a total of 1,315 subjects have joined the megatrial in the Philippines, with 730 patients enrolled in public hospitals and 585 in private hospitals,” he said in his welcome remarks during the Council’s 39th founding anniversary celebration

Virgin coconut oil s potential as COVID solution must be studied further, says AGHAM

(DTI WEBSITE / FILE PHOTO) Angelo Palmones, president of the Alyansa ng mga Grupong Haligi ng Agham at Teknolohiya Para sa Mamamayan (AGHAM), made this pitch even as authorities have been scrambling for ways to contain the current upsurge in new COVID-19 infections. “For the short term, to boost our efforts in fighting COVID variants, clinical studies on virgin coconut oil must be completed as soon as possible,” Palmones said. “It will also create a big demand for VCO, globally. It will help our farmers and businesses,” he pointed out. It was October 2020 when the use of VCO as a potential “antiviral agent” against COVID-19 first grabbed local headlines. The results of a Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD)-funded study reportedly showed that compounds from coconut oil or VCO can decrease coronavirus count by 60 to 90 percent at low viral load.

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