Last Updated on April 7, 2020, 5:04 PM AST by Anthony Morris
Cuba would soon begin distributing a new medicine named PREVENGOVIR which is based on Homoeopathy.
PREVENGOVIR is a homoeopathic immunological booster.
Dr Francisco Duran, Director of Epidemiology, announced that Cuba plans to distribute the new medicine among the country’s population to help in prevention and protection from viral infections like COVID-19 and other common types of flu.
Dr Duran explained in the daily press briefing on COVID-19 in Cuba that PREVENGOVIR is a sublingual product which has first been applied to risk groups in isolation centres, and hospitals caring for positive and suspected COVID-19 patients.
Homoeopathy is an alternative medicine system which was created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. Homoeopathy is based on Samuel’s doctrine of ‘the similar cures the similar’.
Homoeopathy has been developed in Cuba for over the past 30 years with the help of China, Vietnam and India.
There are pharmacies in Cuba which are just dedicated to natural and homoeopathic medicines.
Dr Duran pointed out in his Sunday report to the media that Cuba had done 1,201 tests for coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 32 people had tested positive and only 2.8% of that amount, for a total 320 persons diagnosed with COVID-19 since the outbreak began.
Out of those, 295 are active patients who have been hospitalized and are under treatment.
Around 283 persons out of them are doing fine, but the other eight are in a critical condition, and four are in a serious state.
However, the number of people in clinical-epidemiological quarantine in the isolation centres has come down to 1,887.
Out of 1,887 persons, 1,291 are suspected cases.
Around 16,306 people are being monitored at home by the system of Primary Medical Care.
Four of the new positive cases in the country had contracted the disease abroad.
Out of four, three persons have contracted the disease in the United States, and one person has contracted the virus in Spain.
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