COVID-19: Germany orders 200,000 doses of drugs that 'cured Donald Trump'

Germany has ordered hundreds of doses of drug that previously cured former US President Donald Trump of coronavirus. While thing is kwn about manufacturers of “miraculous” treatment yet, German health minister, on January 23, confirmed deal. Speaking to a local newspaper, Jens Spahn revealed that country had bought 200,000 doses for a whopping amount of 400 million euros.

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He also confirmed that y were same drugs which were used to treat trump when he contracted virus in October last year. Elaborating furr he said that drugs work as “passive vaccination” and was capable of stopping any serious progression of coronavirus in vulnerable patients at an early st of disease.

During his treatment, Trump was given experimental-antibody treatment which was n developed by a US firm Regeneron, kwn as REGN-COV2. He had chosen to take this treatment, which was a combination of two antibodies, even before it had been approved by regulators. However, Trump was elated after he recovered and claimed that treatment had done a “fantastic job".

Over 2 million cases

Since beginning of pandemic, Germany has reported a total of  2,137,689 cases and 52,536 deaths. Earlier this month, experts and politicians slammed Germany for t buying eugh doses of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to roll out its immunisation programme. Germany, which recently reported presence of mutant coronavirus, is a part of EU’s vaccine procurement scheme and is reliant on bloc’s regulators for granting authorization of vaccine to prevent COVID-19 infection. Currently, only Pfizer/BioNTech jabs, domestically produced by Germany, are allowed across bloc.

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Speaking to Die Welt (DW) newspaper, Frauke Zipp a neurologist and member of advisory Leopoldina Academy of Sciences called who situation a "gross failure". Questioning Angela Merkel led government, she asked reason behind t ordering “much more of vaccine during summer just to be safe?"

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