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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , has announced that the Solidarity trial , promoted by the international health agency, is going to resume research with the drug hydroxychloroquine , after it was suspended last week temporarily with a possible increased risk of death and heart disease.

"This decision was made as a precaution while reviewing the safety data. The Solidarity Trial Data Safety and Surveillance Committee has been reviewing the data. Based on available mortality data, committee members recommended that they not There are reasons to modify the trial protocol. The Executive Group received this recommendation and approved the continuation of all branches of the trial, including hydroxychloroquine, "Tedros said at a press conference this Wednesday.

However, the WHO director has specified that the Data Safety and Surveillance Committee "will continue to closely monitor" the safety of all drugs in the Solidarity trial . So far, more than 3,500 patients have been recruited in 35 countries, Tedros has reported.

The Americas continues to have the highest number of Covid-19 cases . "We are particularly concerned about the situation in Central and South America , where many countries are witnessing accelerated epidemics. We also see an increasing number of cases in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and Africa , although the numbers are much lower," he warned. Tedros, pointing out that the number of Covid-19 cases in Europe "continues to decrease". In fact, yesterday there were the lowest reported cases in the 'old continent' since March 22.

Ebola outbreak in the Congo

On the other hand, the director of the international health organization also

It has addressed the new Ebola outbreak in the city of Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) . So far, 8 cases have been detected. Four of them have died and the other 4 are receiving care. This Ebola outbreak is in the same area as a previous outbreak in the DRC in 2018, which stopped in just 3 months.

However, it is located on the other side of the country from the Ebola outbreak that the WHO and its partners have been fighting for almost 2 years in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri , in eastern DRC. The last person confirmed with Ebola attended the burial of one of the first cases, but was detected in the city of Bikoro , 150 kilometers from Mbandaka . This means that two health areas are now affected, "he lamented.

Nearly 50 WHO envoys and their partners arrived in Mbandaka, along with 3,600 doses of Ebola vaccines and 2,000 cartridges for laboratory tests. The DRC government is now sequencing the virus to see whether or not it is related to a previous outbreak.

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