OCTA fellow bats for increased supply of new anti-viral drugs vs. COVID-19

OCTA Research fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco suggests to President Rodrigo Duterte to increase the country's oral anti-viral drugs supply to achieve population immunity amid the continuing decline in nationwide COVID-19 cases.

The national government must focus its efforts in procuring more supplies of new anti-viral drugs to achieve population immunity amid the continuing decline in nationwide COVID-19 cases.

"They are equally effective against all variants of SARS-CoV2. The vaccines depend upon the variants, but the anti-viral drugs are equally effective," said Austriaco, who was invited to speak remotely during the weekly Inter-Agency Task Force meeting on Monday.

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