Covid-19: Hydroxychloroquine stopped being used after no positive effects, says Health DG

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Covid-19: Hydroxychloroquine stopped being used after no positive effects, says Health DG
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PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has conducted trials using hydroxychloroquine on about 500 Covid-19 patients in the country, with no significant difference found on them.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the medicine which has been used to treat malaria for more than 40 years, was part of a trial as it relieved inflammation.

The World Health Organisation had in May halted trials of the drug for Covid-19 treatment under the global Solidarity Trial that Malaysia is also part of. Category one is for positive cases with no symptoms, category two is for positive cases with mild symptoms, category three is for positive cases with pneumonia, category four patients are those who have inflammation in the lungs and require oxygen, while category five patients are those who came to the hospital in the late stages and require ventilator support.

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