Antiviral pills for the coronavirus will be administered to the same categories of people who are administered the monoclonal, with the exception of women who are pregnant, said to SKAI the professor of Pulmonology Stelios Loukidis. The platform for the distribution of antiviral pills for Covid-19 is expected to open within the day, as Deputy Health Minister Mina Gaga said yesterday, during the briefing on the course of the pandemic.
The professor pointed out about the pills that “The quantity is close to 10,000. “If one thinks proportionally how many people are infected, and how many of them are at risk of serious disease, I think we are entering a different approach, which will change a little the data of the philosophy of treatment.”
“It is very important that with the pills, we will not waste time. Because the monoclons had to be injected in an inpatient setting. It is done at the beginning of the disease (the administration), within the first five days at home “.
We are entering new data, he added. As he said, the pills will be prescribed through a small committee that will look at each case every day and approve it. “The doctor will make the application as was done with the monoclonal ones”, he clarified.
“We are entering a period, which we started around December 20, when we are trying to prevent serious infections. “The first part we did was the monoclonal ones, in which we were able to sell, at least until the peak of Omicron, what we had, the two thousand,” he noted.
“We are not done with the pandemic yet”
“It’s too early to say we’re done with the pandemic,” he said. He stated that there is an increased number of imports, but not proportional to the incidents. “We had 4,000 and 5,000 (incidents) a day and 600 imports, now we have 20,000 to 25,000 and again 600 exports,” he explained.
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