By Euro Weekly News Media • Published: 17 Mar 2020 • 15:34
So far, there is no proven cure or treatment but some scientists are confident they are getting closer to ending the spread of the virus.
However, Spain is now launching its own clinical trials into a vaccine and will test the drug on infected patients in three hospitals across Spain, in Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona.
Chinese researchers were the first to create a vaccine in February and after further research of the antiviral drug, it is thought that human testing will begin in April.
In the US, a human clinical trial of a drug which apparently uses genetic engineering to create bits of the virus have begun and scientists in Australia claiming that a HIV and anti-malaria drug has cured Covid-19 patients.
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