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More than 200,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, and more than 8000 people have lost their lives, the World Health Organization said, announcing that the first trials for a coronavirus vaccine have already started.
«As you know, the first vaccine trial has begun, just 60 days after the genetic sequence of the virus was shared by China. This is an incredible achievement», WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference held Wednesday in Geneva.
«Multiple small trials with different methodologies may not give us the clear, strong evidence we need about which treatments help to save lives. WHO and its partners are therefore organizing a study in many countries in which some of these untested treatments are compared with each other».
For the UN agency, «this large international study» is designed to generate the robust data needed to show which treatments are the most effective.
Named the «solidarity trial», it «provides simplified procedures to enable even hospitals that have been overloaded to participate».
«Many countries have already confirmed that they will join the SOLIDARITY trial - Argentina, Bahrain, Canada, France, Iran, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and Thailand», he added.
