Health: Covid-19 pill cured 800 patients in three days – Gulf Digital News

Health: Covid-19 pill cured 800 patients in three days – Gulf Digital News

MORE than 800 Covid-19 patients treated with an oral pill were effectively cured in three days, with none of them requiring hospitalisation, a Bahrain study has revealed.

Pfizer’s antiviral drug Paxlovid – now available at International Hospital Bahrain – also proved to be a boon for 75 per cent of the remaining study participants, as they defeated the virus on the fifth day of infection without hospitalisation.

More than 1,600 infected people were treated with the drug – identified as the ‘second best therapeutic solution’ to the viral infection – since February 16 as part of the research.

“The antiviral was also found to be effective on the elderly,” National Taskforce for Combating Covid-19 monitoring committee head Lieutenant Colonel Dr Manaf Al Qahtani said on his Twitter account yesterday.

“Bahrain is one of the first countries to provide Paxlovid since February 2022, and local data confirms its effectiveness in completely reducing symptoms,” said

Dr Lt Col Dr Al Qahtani.

“Fifty-one per cent of the infected who were treated with Paxlovid recovered completely on the third day, and 75pc of the remaining (patients) recuperated on the fifth day, without the need for admission to treatment centres.”

Bahrain approved the pill for emergency use in February last month, for