GENEVA, Jan. 26 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday released new clinical advice for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, including those who exhibit persistent symptoms after recovery, and also said it recommended using low-dose coagulants to prevent blood clots.
WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a UN briefing in Geneva that a WHO-led team of independent experts, currently in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first human cases were discovered in December 2019, will be quarantined for the next two days. will leave to continue his work on the origin of the virus.
Harris declined to commit to reports of delays in the roll-out of vaccines in the European Union. She said she had no specific data and that the WHO’s priority was for health workers in all countries to be vaccinated for the first 100 days of the year.
Reporting by Stephanie Negripay and Emma Farge