WHO Director General Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses an audience at the headquarters in Geneva.
WHO Director General Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses an audience at the headquarters in Geneva.

The World Health Organisation has said that it would launch a multiarm, multicountry clinical trial for potential coronavirus therapies, part of an aggressive effort to jumpstart the global search for drugs to treat COVID-19.

Four drugs or drug combinations already licensed and used for other illnesses will be tested, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

According to STATenter link description here, ten countries have already indicated they will take part in the trial.

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