{"id":323483,"date":"2020-05-26T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323483"},"modified":"2020-05-26T05:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:28:12","slug":"who-halts-trial-of-anti-malaria-drug-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19-over-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/who-halts-trial-of-anti-malaria-drug-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19-over-safety-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO halts trial of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 over safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_321930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321930\" style=\"width: 562px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-321930\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/medicine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/medicine-1.jpg 478w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/medicine-1-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/medicine-1-470x420.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-321930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Monday said it had &#8216;paused&#8217; the clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients citing safety reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hydroxychloroquine has been touted as a possible treatment for coronavirus by US President Donald Trump as well as others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the Solidarity trial while the safety data is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board,&#8221; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe other arms of the trial are continuing,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The decision to suspend trials of hydroxychloroquine had been taken out of an abundance of caution,&#8221; Dr Mike Ryan, head of the WHO emergencies programme said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The novel coronavirus cases surpassed 5.3 million mark globally, with over 3.4 lakh fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The US has the world&#8217;s highest number of cases over 1.6 lakh and death toll near 98,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Brazil has the second-highest number of cases followed by Russia, UK, Spain, Italy, France and Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Monday said it had &#8216;paused&#8217; the clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients citing safety reasons. Hydroxychloroquine has been touted as a possible treatment for coronavirus by US President Donald Trump as well as others. &#8220;The executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[13060,6737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323484,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323483\/revisions\/323484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}