CAIRO - 3 August 2022: Egypt has introduced a new treatment protocol to treat people with COVID amid the emergence of new rapidly spreading mutant, which is the BA.4 and BA.5. “The Scientific Committee to Combat Corona Virus has issued an update to the Corona treatment protocol in its seventh version, as the Ministry has stopped the use of ivermectin and colchicine,” Hosny explained. Hossam Hosny added that the treatment using the blood plasma of the recovered was stopped, according to the updated treatment protocol to confront Corona. Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar added, doctors will be trained in the treatment protocol for the Corona virus, diagnosing various mutants of the virus. He also praised the Egyptian treatment protocol for the Corona virus, which contributed a lot to raising the levels of recovery at isolation hospitals since the spread of the Corona virus pandemic.

Source: Egypt Today August 04, 2022 05:22 UTC