Russia on Thursday proposed a drug that has been approved to treat new coronaviruses, with cases exceeding half a million cases in the country, while the World Health Organization warned of an acceleration of the virus in the continent.

The Russian sovereign wealth fund, which has supported trials on the drug and has a 50% stake in its manufacturer Kim Rar, said that the first shipments of the anti-viral drug, called "Avivavir", had arrived in some hospitals and clinics across the country.

The Ministry of Health approved the use of the drug under a rapid special process while clinical trials, which are being conducted for a shorter period and in smaller numbers than in other countries, are still ongoing.

There is no vaccine yet for the emerging coronavirus, and several human drug trials have not yet been shown to be effective.

Kirill Dimitriev, head of the sovereign fund, told Reuters last week that there are plans to produce enough of the drug to treat 60,000 patients per month. Today, he confirmed that more than ten countries have requested supplies of the drug.

The number of injured people in Russia reached 502,436, ranking third in the world after Brazil and the United States, but the death rate is relatively low, with a total of 6,532 deaths.

Accelerated in Africa

With regard to Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday that the pandemic of Corona virus "is accelerating" in the brown continent, where it spreads from the capitals, which arrived with travelers, to remote areas.

However, the organization added that there is no indication of serious infections, unobserved deaths, or large outbreaks of the virus in refugee camps across the continent.

Ten countries are at the forefront of the pandemic in Africa, accounting for 75% of the approximately 207,600 cases on the continent, which has recorded 5,000 deaths, said Machidiso Moiti, WHO's regional director for Africa.

She added that the youth population is relatively overwhelming the population of Africa, and that many countries have already taken screening measures at entry points to monitor the Ebola fever, two factors that have so far resulted in reducing the outbreak of the Coronavirus.

But she said that public isolation and market closures aimed at containing the virus had done great harm to marginalized communities and low-income families.

The new Coronavirus has killed at least 416,343 people worldwide since it appeared in China in December. More than 7.38 million infections were officially recorded in 196 countries and territories.

The number of deaths exceeded 70,000 in the South American continent stretching from Mexico to the archipelago of the land of fire between Argentina and Chile passing through the Caribbean islands, and Brazil recorded more than half of the deaths.

Total deaths in this region have exceeded 71,915, and the toll in Mexico has exceeded 15,000, according to the government.