The WHO Has Not Announced Any Effective Drugs Against All COVID Variants
The Claim
The World Health Organization discovered a drug that effectively combats all COVID-19 variants. Experiments to test the drug will begin in early 2023.
News posted on
Emerging story
Recently, posts on social media claimed that the World Health Organization (WHO) had discovered a new effective drug against all COVID-19 variants. According to the posts, the treatment testing will begin in 2023.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar has investigated the claim and found it to be misleading.
The World Health Organization did not announce anything related to a new effective drug against all COVID-19 variants on their website.
Photo description: WHO did not announce anything related to a new effective treatment against all COVID-19 variants.
The Japan Times news website has published an article in which they reported on Japanese researchers working on developing a new vaccine to provide lifetime efficacy against the COVID-19.
According to the article, the pharmaceutical company will conduct the first two clinical trial periods of the vaccine in Japan during the first half of 2023.
The website also added that nearly 150 to 200 volunteers would participate in the trial.
Photo description: Tokyo researchers are working on developing a vaccine with lifetime efficacy.
The WHO Director-General Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, in a statement that the pandemic could be put to an end in 2022, but only through global cooperation. He also warned that “continuing inequity in vaccine distribution helps increase the risk of the virus evolving.”
Photo description: The world could defeat the pandemic in 2022 with global cooperation.
It is worth mentioning that the World Health Organization has set a new goal for the current year, which is to vaccinate 70% of the population in all countries by next July to end the pandemic.
Translated by: Khadija Boufous
