WHO approves two new Covid-19 treatments

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PARIS - The World Health Organisation approved two new Covid-19 treatments on Friday , growing the arsenal of tools along with vaccines to stave off severe illness and death from the coronavirus.

with the WHO predicting that half of Europe will be infected by March.

Sotrovimab's benefits for people not at risk of hospitalisation were deemed insignificant and the WHO said its effectiveness against new variants such as Omicron was still uncertain. Arthritis drugs tocilizumab and sarilumab, which the WHO endorsed in July, are IL-6 inhibitors that suppress a dangerous overreaction of the immune system to the Sars-CoV-2 virus.

 

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