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Malaysia Drops UN sends

Real Estate Institute Of Hydroxychloroquine five robots
Botswana to Rwanda
TEL: 316 4713
CELL:72 107 842 From Covid-19 Treatment to detect

Royal Institution Of Chartered
Surveyors Botswana Group he Ministry of Health (MOH) The results showed that 10 per coronavirus
TEL: 310 5494 has stopped using antimalarial cent of patients who consumed
CELL: 72 111 201 hydroxychloroquine worsened to
Tdrug hydroxychloroquine to treat
Covid-19, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. Stages Four and Five, compared to 8.9
Setlogelwa Tsatsing Civil & per cent of those who did not take the new type of robot has
Contractors Association The Health director-general said today antimalarial, a difference that was not been sent to Rwanda by
the
CELL: 71 380 505 that recent local data showing that statistically significant. A United Nations in an
effort to help detect coronavirus
hydroxychloroquine doesn’t stop the infections.
Quantity Surveyors Registration progression of Covid-19, contrary to “Now we have the data and we can
Council previous findings, led to that decision confirm that the medicine is not
Tel: 3956170 made by MOH. effective to treat Covid-19 patients. We The hardware for the robot was
stopped using the medicine because we built by Chinese company UBTech
For any Ommitted Associations “Hydroxychloroquine is not a new have the data,” said Dr Noor Hisham Robotics, and the software was
developed by Belgian company
or Corrections to the above medicine. We have been using it for today. ZoraBots.
Information /interivews almost 40 years to treat malaria. We The DG also insisted that MOH required
use it as off-label medicine for Covid-19
email : treatment,” he told a press conference. more data and scientific research to ZoraBots says the new kind
help
healthcare
robot
of
marketing@engineermagazine.co.bw study the effectiveness of medicines professionals, governments
that are being used to treat Covid-19
“Initially we used it as an anti- and international organizations
inflammation medicine. We felt that it patients. to limit the spread of the
was effective. But when we collected coronavirus.
data from 500 cases, we found that “Our reported cases are declining.
hydroxychloroquine did not have When there’s a decline in the cases, we The robots have been donated by
positive effects. Statistics also did not do not have enough patients to carry the UN to Rwanda’s Ministry of
show the effectiveness of that medicine. out scientific research. Health to help fight the spread of
“When it is not effective to use, we “Although we have been identified as coronavirus in the country and are
“already fulfilling their missions”
decided to stop using it to treat Covid-19 one of the centres to conduct research at the Kanyinya treatment center
patients,” he added. with WHO, but now we don’t have that treats Covid-19 patients in
enough cases,” he said. the capital city, Kigali.
Yesterday, The Star reported Dr K.
Suresh, an infectious disease consultant Malaysia’s total active infectious Equipped with the ZoraBots
and Hospital Sungai Buloh’s head of Covid-19 cases number at 289. solution, the Cruzr robots will
the medical department, as suggesting be used for mass temperature
that hydroxychloroquine did not delay It is to be noted that the World Health screening, monitoring patient
progression of Covid-19 in patients. Organization (WHO) also decided to end status, and keeping medical
hydroxychloroquine testing last week

He stated that data obtained from in its global Solidarity trial that studies records of Covid-19 patients.
preliminary research conducted among potential treatments for Covid-19, as The robots’ infrared cameras
586 Covid-19 patients who were either data suggested the antimalarial would enable them to screen up to
in Stage 2 or 3 demonstrated that the not help coronavirus patients. Malaysia 150 people every minute for
antimalarial drug did not help improve is one of the countries participating in symptoms of the virus such as
their condition. the WHO study. UN sends five robots to high temperature.

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