Currently, over 130 interventional COVID-19 clinical trials are ongoing and the results of some of these studies are anticipated to be released next month. As per the press release, this “new drug” was discovered in collaboration with the Ethiopian traditional medicine experts. Ethiopian traditional medicine – alike others, such as traditional African, Indian, Islamic, and Chinese medicines – is one of the widely recognized practices. Thus, modern drug discovery programs owe much to the natural products pipeline for investigational drug development. However, there is very little information accessible on de novo drug development capacity and digitization of natural products via a dedicated database in Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News March 30, 2020 13:41 UTC