Search for cure: Kenya enrolls 11 Covid-19 patients for clinical trials

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A medical worker addresses some of the first South African Oxford vaccine trialists ahead of the clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Covid-19. PHOTO | AFP

Typically, companies wait for data before initiating large-scale manufacture but because of the urgent global need, they are making doses so that they can be ready the moment they are shown to be effective

Kenya has launched its first clinical drug trial which will see Roche’s rheumatoid arthritis drug studied on 11 Covid-19 patients hospitalised with moderate symptoms of the disease