NSTworld: China is administering its centuries-old traditional medicine on patients affected by the Covid19 coronavirus disease.
Treatment in Wuhan hospitals combine Traditional Chinese Medicine, popularly known as TCM, and western medicines, said Wang Hesheng, the new health commission head in Hubei, the province at the centre of the virus outbreak. He said TCM was applied on more than half of confirmed cases in Hubei.
No drugs or preventives have yet been approved against the virus, which has already claimed the lives of 1,868 people in China and affected about 77,400 people. A member of the medical staff massaging a patient an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. -AFPWang is one of the officials at the forefront of an effort by Beijing to reset its approach to the epidemic, after anger grew across China at a lack of transparency throughout the crisis that has shut down large swathes of the economy. Earlier this week, China sacked the top leadership in the embattled province, including Wang’s predecessor.
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