By Raji Unnikrishnan
MORE than 800 Covid-19 patients treated with an oral pill were effectively cured in three days, with none of them requiring hospitalisation, a Bahrain study has revealed.
Pfizer’s antiviral drug Paxlovid – now available at International Hospital Bahrain – also proved to be a boon for 75 per cent of the remaining study participants, as they defeated the virus on the fifth day of infection without hospitalisation.
More than 1,600 infected people were treated with the drug – identified as the ‘second best therapeutic solution’ to the viral infection – since February 16 as part of the research.
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