A team of Australian researchers at Monash University in Melbourne have found that Ivermectin — an FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug that has been used to effectively fight viruses including HIV, Influenza, and Zika — was able to stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus from growing in cell cultures.

While promising, the drug has yet to be shown to have the same effect inside the human body, because the Australian research was conducted “in vitro,” meaning it was in a Petri dish at a lab. The researchers are still trying to nail down funding for pre-clinical testing and clinical trials, after which they’d have to start the long approval process for the trials themselves.

The results, though, are promising. In just 48 hours, the scientists say, all genetic material of the virus was eradicated.

“We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it,” Kylie Wagstaff, lead researcher and co-author of the study published today in Antiviral Research, said in a statement.

“Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug,” Wagstaff said. “We need to figure out now whether the dosage you can use it at in humans will be effective — that’s the next step.”

“As the virologist who was part of the team who were first to isolate and share SARS-COV2 outside of China in January 2020, I am excited about the prospect of Ivermectin being used as a potential drug against COVID-19,” Leon Caly, senior medical scientist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) at the Doherty Institute, said.

A vaccine for COVID-19 is likely still at least a year out, despite research teams across the world fast tracking work on potential vaccines. But that doesn’t mean we’re doomed.

“In times when we’re having a global pandemic and there isn’t an approved treatment, if we had a compound that was already available around the world then that might help people sooner,” Wagstaff said in the statement. “Realistically it’s going to be a while before a vaccine is broadly available.”

https://futurism.com/anti-parasitic-drug-kills-coronavirus-cell-cultures-48-hours

Ok

These are countries where their knowledge factories are not on lockdown and thus making sporadical progress unlike this geographical contraption where almost all knowledge factories are on lockdown. That is the reason why our clueless rulers cannot look inwards for possible solution but are trying to import additional problem

What have our African researchers discovered?

Oh! We are still waiting as usual.

Ekakamba:
What have our African researchers discovered?

Oh! We are still waiting as usual.

African Researchers have great potential solving the numerous health challenges affecting the continent. However, due to the miserably unavailability of funding and mismanagement by some unscrupulous elements within the ranks of some people, we'll have to rely on the West for everything since we don't have the facilities.
A Professor in my school developed a potent chemical substance for eradicating both primary and secondary stage of Tuberculosis. The institute where the discovery was made has taken charge of everything (India). I have colleagues who are working and making considerable progress finding sustainable solutions to prevailing infectious diseases but due to no funding and problem of enormous magnitude they're giving up. Even grants are no longer available

Good. Saw it on a UK site yesterday.