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WHO Approves Two New Drug to Treat COVID-19

Category : International
Published on: January 17 2022 Share on facebook

  • The World Health Organization has approved two new drugs for two new COVID-19 treatments that will help expand its arsenal of vaccines as well as tools to prevent serious illness and virus deaths.
  • These two drug are baricitinib and casirivimab-imdevimab.
  • The WHO has recommended Eli Lilly & Co.’s rheumatoid arthritis drug and GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s monoclonal antibody. 
  • Lilly's baricitinib drug is a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor- a class of drugs used to treat autoimmune conditions, blood and bone marrow cancers, and rheumatoid arthritis.
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