Scientists at the Institute of Pharmacology in Shanghai affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their colleagues at the Institute of Virology in Wuhan affirmed that an herbal drug may fight the Coronavirus.
The drug is known as Shuang Huang Lian Koufuye; it is derived from local herbs used in Chinese popular medicine.
The botanic components of the drug reduce temperature, remove poisons and cleanse internal and outer parts of the human body.
It is also antivirus and bacteria and enhances the immunity system.
Scientists in Shanghai conducted a study in 2003 proved that drug can treat irregular pneumonia.
They have continued to study that for more than ten years to know more about its characteristics and effectiveness in fighting the viruses H7N9, H1N1 and H5N1 cause influenza, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
The results of those studies were positive and promising.
The Chinese scientists are studying that drug clinically in a number of medical centers and universities now.
The Government Health Committee and the State’s Directorate of the Chinese Traditional Medicine, has published later the name of another drug-fighting the Coronavirus known as Huoxiangzhengqi koufuye.
The Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization ( WHO) in December that an epidemic broke in the Wuhan district in the middle part of the country.
The authorities warned that the pathogen of the ambiguous disease is 2019-nCoV which is a virus of a family that causes a wide range of reciprocity diseases such as the common cold, SARS and pneumonia.
Reports revealed that a team of scientists in China has developed a new medical test that detects the infection with the Coronavirus in less than 15 minutes.
Experts around the world consider that breakthrough as a wide step toward fighting and containing the deadly virus which broke in China last December.
The virus claimed the lives of more than two hundred people and injured some ten thousand persons in China and other countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
The scientists hope that the new test helps greatly to stop the virus and prevent it from spreading in and out of China.
Experts at a technology company based in Wuxi in east China’s Jiangsu Province, working with the National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention, developed a rapid DNA test in just 10 days, according to Xinhua, the Chinese national news agency.
The effective material of the test is currently being manufactured in large quantities at an average of 4,000 sets per day.
The local government in Wuxi is monitoring efforts to increase production.
The first batch of the test was reportedly already handed over to hospitals on the front lines at the epidemic outbreak epicenter at Wuhan, Hubei Province in the middle of China.
The death toll from the virus continues to rise, as does the rate of infection worldwide.
On Friday, January 31, the UK confirmed the first case of the disease.
The UK joined more than 15 other countries around the world with other confirmed cases.
Up to date, about 213 patients have died as a result of infection with the Coronavirus, and another 9,700 have contracted the deadly disease.
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