BANGKOK, February 2. / TASS /. Influenza and AIDS drugs have proven successful in treating patients with coronavirus. This was announced on Sunday by two doctors in Thailand, who used these medicines on a Chinese woman with serious symptoms of a new type of pneumonia.
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Two doctors from Rachaviti Hospital in Bangkok – Kriangsak Atipornwanik and Suebsai Kongsangdao – said at a briefing that a 71-year-old woman showed improvement 48 hours after the administration of two groups of drugs. Initially, she was hospitalized in a hospital in Hua Hin, and on January 29, she was transferred to one of the capital’s medical institutions, the Bangkok Post newspaper writes. Having discovered severe symptoms in her, the doctors decided to use the Oseltamivir flu medicine, which was used to treat the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the Lopinavir / Ritonavir drug for AIDS.
“After poor results for 10 days, the tests finally got good[, произошло это] after 48 hours [после] taking medication. Treatment, as well as recovery, is fast, “the specialists emphasized. They noted that they reported the successful use of drugs in the medical journal and plan to use these drugs in other patients. According to them, the two groups of drugs are effective for people with serious symptoms.
Ministry of Health officials also said during the briefing that the total number of coronavirus infections confirmed in Thailand so far is 19. The total number of patients treated has already reached eight. Another 382 people with suspected coronavirus are under surveillance.
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