Wow, have not seen this kind of information in any international media. Good work in collating the data.

Although many countries are trying their best to find a vaccine to cure the rapidly expanding and fastly growing coronavirus pandemic through a highly intensive R&D process including pain staking testing procedures, it might take at least one year to make the ends meet.

I have high hopes for Remedesivir. This is an antiviral that was already in phase iii trials prior to being fast tracked for Covid-19 trials approval. It is currently be trialed in patients with severe symptoms, but it would be equally important to see how it works in patients with mild to moderate symptoms. The key is to not let the symptoms get to the severe stage, and it would be great to have a drug that works at the start.

Hydroxycholoquine had caused heart complications in over 10% of the patients in a study in Brazil. The use of the drug was immediately stopped. On a happy note, a Connecticut Pakistani/American cadiologist has proposed a new way to deal with ventilator shortages. Doctor Masoud Anwar said that by using a four-piece splitter, a single ventilator can serve up to seven patients suffering from respiratory issues due to COVID-19. He further explained that as a physician, he can,t accept the option of who should be put on the ventilator and who should not to save lives. We should be thankful to our frontline doctors and nurses who risk their lives to save lives. The govt should investigate who gave the order to the police to baton charge the doctors. Beating doctors for legitimate demands of personal protection equipment is shameful and can only happen in Pakistan.

With 5 vaccines already in clinical trials and more to follow, we will have a vaccine by the end of this year. The biggest issue with any vaccine would be its mass scale thereafter. There are not many companies who could take the risk of mass production prior to clinical trials are fully concluded and governments will have to help them if there is a really good candidate. Yesterday, GSK and Sanofi announced a partnership in vaccine development, and these sort of big companies would be willing to take such risks, if they have promising candidate/s.

Why the Pakistani inventions and the great work by University research teams being ignored in the report? Plasma treatment, other quick fix drugs are completely ignored. Instead of being proud of our researchers and countrymen, I am disappointed with this copy-paste report! Sir, why did you chose to ignore the pathbreaking drugs invented by us?

This is the time we being human should unite and work on humanness.Those who are working on making vaccine against this deadly virus should be appreciated. Please learn to appreciate this is no time to criticise.

@Anjum, Which drug? Who made or created? Any clinical test? Please provide details of Pakistani invention. If you are talking about Plasma treatment; it was not invented by any Pakistani agency, it has been used by many countries. Please read the report once again. There is mention of Plasma. It is not cut and paste article it was covered by Reuters a global news organization and reproduced. Little knowledge is very dangerous.

@Anjum, Can you name any drugs invented by Pakistani?