Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSolidarity Trial is the world\u2019s \u201clargest\u201d multinational human trials on Covid-19 therapeutics. It was initiated by WHO and its partners in March to help find an effective treatment for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It covers four repurposed drugs or drug combinations \u2014 remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir\/ritonavir and interferon (in combination with rotinavir and lopinavir).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main aim was to help determine whether any of these repurposed therapies could at least moderately affect in-hospital mortality, and whether any effects differed between moderate and severe disease, said Dr Sheela Godbole, national coordinator of the Solidarity Trial in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The initiative included 26 trials in parts of India with a high burden of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drugs like hyrdoxychloroquine and lopinavir, in fact, had already been dropped over the course of the last six months for not showing much promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
World Health Organization (WHO) made available interim results from the Solidarity Therapeutics Trial. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Solidarity Trial is the world\u2019s \u201clargest\u201d multinational human trials on Covid-19 therapeutics. It was initiated by WHO and its partners in March to help find an effective treatment for Covid-19. It covers four repurposed drugs or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":31918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[232],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-31917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2020","tag-world-health-organizationwho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31919,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31917\/revisions\/31919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31917"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=31917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}