GUANGZHOU, China, Nov 5 (Bernama-AsiaNet) — Artequick artemisinin and piperaquine tablets have once again become buzzwords across the globe, as most recently, their effectiveness in treating COVID-19 was hotly debated by live streamers on overseas social media and we media platforms. These drugs first came to the industry’s attention after the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents published a paper titled “Safety and Efficacy of Artemisinin-Piperaquine for Treatment of COVID-19”.
As the fourth-generation artemisinin compound, artemisinin-piperaquine had been registered in dozens of countries, said Wang Xinhua, former president of Guangzhou Medical University, senior consultant at Guangdong New South Traditional Chinese Medicine Institute, and leading member of the group for artemisinin’s clinical research and application in China, adding that for decades, it has been widely used as an effective cure for malaria, particularly falciparum malaria. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the devoted team of scientists has examined the compound’s efficacy against the virus, and their breakthrough has unleashed a hot debate overseas. This implies how the scientific community and the general public are in desperate need of effective drug treatments for COVID-19.
