© EFEPresident Nicolas Maduro at a ministerial meeting on COVID-19 in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct.12, 2020.
Authorities said that the drug "has shown 100 percent inhibition of virus replication in vitro."
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Sunday announced the discovery of a high-effective treatment capable of eliminating COVID-19 and pointed out that a drug
will be presented to the World Health Organization (WHO) for certification.
The treatment, based on a molecule called TR-10, was designed by the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), which had been working on a cure for the past six months.
"this molecule has been tested for COVID-19, all the research has been done.
This study lasted 6 months, resulting in 100 percent annihilation of the virus", Maduro said.
Maduro congratulated the IVIC on "this great contribution to humanity" and assured that Venezuela will offer this treatment to the world. He also pointed out that the mass production of the drug will be facilitated through "international alliances."
IVIC stressed that studies conducted so far show that the drug will not have any side effects on the patients and that
it "does not affect healthy molecules in the body."
Science & Technology Minister Gabriela Jimenez said that the studies were conducted on virus cells isolated from Venezuelan coronavirus patients and that the molecule is an ursolic acid derivative, which "has shown 100 percent inhibition of virus replication in vitro."
Earlier this month, Venezuela became the first Latin American nation to receive Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, with clinical trials involving 2,000 volunteers. Besides, Maduro announced that thousands of Chinese vaccines will come to the country over the next mo
Comment: RT
reports on the UK health ministers announcement that the vaccine is 'not there yet' - with one
death and a
number of people who fell ill during the trials, this announcement was predictable. This also means it's highly likely local lockdowns - or worse - will continue through the Christmas holidays:
The British minister of health has rebuffed claims that a UK vaccine could be widely distributed in 2020, adding that his "central expectation" is for roll-out in the first half of 2021.
Speaking on Monday, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4 that he did not anticipate a vaccine to be ready by the end of 2020, dispelling hopes that life could return to normal by Christmas.
"We want to be ready in case everything goes perfectly but it's not my central expectation that we'll be doing that this year, but the programme is progressing well, we're not there yet. "
The minister was responding to reports in the Sun that National Health Service (NHS) staff could be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca shot in the coming weeks and that a London NHS trust is preparing to receive stocks of the vaccine from November 2.
When pushed on whether NHS staff could receive the vaccine this year, he said: "I don't rule that out but that is not my central expectation."
The Mail on Sunday also claimed that the government was readying itself for mass roll-out before Christmas.
Hancock claimed that preparing to roll out the vaccine and actually having an approved vaccine ready were two very different things. "I would expect the bulk of the roll out to be in the first half of next year."
As yet, no jab, including the one developed by scientists at the University of Oxford and British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, has been declared safe and effective in Europe or America.
The UK, like many countries, has prior agreements with AstraZeneca, securing access to the vaccine in the event it passes the required trials. The company announced on Monday that their vaccine had generated a strong immune response in elderly trial participants, increasing hopes that the AstraZeneca vaccine will be effective for the most vulnerable.
The world's first Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Moscow's Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, entered circulation in Russia in September.
Bear in mind, if the UK's aim was to help people through vaccines then both Russia and China have one available. There's also the medication hydroxychloroquine. But this isn't about helping people, this is about a much more nefarious agenda:
And check out SOTT radio's:
Might as well give a vaccine against . . . lightning strikes.
R.C.