Like the American and Chinese experiments, Europe entered the search for a vaccine or treatment for the emerging coronavirus, as clinical trials began in at least 7 countries on the continent to test 4 possible treatments for the killer disease.
And the trials of the four treatments started on 3200 people, including the drugs "Remdisever" and "lopinavir" mixed with "Ritovanir" to be given the last drug with or without interferon beta, as well as "hydroxychloroquine," according to the "Inserm". French Medical Research in a statement.
Those undergoing the trial will be chosen from among people admitted to the hospital for infection with the newly developed Corona virus in Belgium, Britain, France, Luxembourg, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany, the statement stressed.
The French authority also said that an international clinical trial would be launched under the supervision of the World Health Organization.
There is currently no vaccine or treatment available against the Coronavirus, which has caused the death of more than 14,000 people so far in the world.
China embarked on its first clinical trial of the emerging vaccine against coronavirus, Sunday.
A total of 108 volunteers were distributed to 3 groups who received our first Friday rights, according to the Chinese newspaper, "Global Times", published in the English language.
The volunteers are between 18 and 60 years old, and they are all from Wuhan, central China, from where the new Corona virus was released late last year, before it was transmitted out of the country.
The Chinese volunteers will undergo a 6-month follow-up.
On Thursday, international pharmaceutical companies pledged to provide a vaccine against the virus within a period of 12 to 18 months as a minimum.
For its part, Russia announced that it had started a vaccine experiment on animals, with the first results to be released next June.
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