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NFZ: Support package for medical facilities
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NFZ: Support package for medical facilities

The National Health Fund, together with the Ministry of Health, have prepared a set of financial instruments to ensure the stability of medical facilities during the fight against coronavirus. State budget covers all expenditures According to the Act of 2 March on Special Arrangements for Preventing, Counteracting and Combating COVID-19 (the so-called specustawa), all expenditure…

Pharmena: 1-MNA has a good effect on coronavirus effects
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Pharmena: 1-MNA has a good effect on coronavirus effects

According to the latest scientific paper published in “Cell Death & Differentiation” it is recommended to administer vitamin B3 as a dietary supplement in coronavirus infection. Dietary supplements based on vitamin B3 derivative are produced by Pharmena. Vitamin B3 against COVID-19 The scientific publication of March 2020, prepared by a group of Chinese and Italian…

Poland will apply rapid tests for coronavirus
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Poland will apply rapid tests for coronavirus

Fast tests for coronvirus will be used in Poland, health minister Lukasz Szumowski announced in the “Fakty po faktach” programme on TVN 24. However, their use will be possible in strictly defined cases. Serological tests only help sometimes As we informed a few days ago, the use of rapid serological tests to diagnose COVID-19 has…

Coronavirus: Polish companies have started to help the state
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Coronavirus: Polish companies have started to help the state

The current coronavirus pandemic is a burden that no health care system in the world can handle. Many Polish companies have responded to the government’s appeal for support, financing the purchase of protection equipment, tests and medical equipment from their own resources. Polpharma will buy respirators Jerzy Starak, together with his Polpharma Group, one of…

Less than 3% of the coronavirus tests in Poland were positive
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Less than 3% of the coronavirus tests in Poland were positive

According to the data published by the Ministry of Health, in Poland less than 3% of the tests for coronavirus gave positive results, i.e. confirmed the infection. As of Wednesday, 18 March, 9,515 samples were tested for coronavirus infection in Poland. A positive result was 246 of them, which means a share of less than…

Coronavirus: Rapid serological tests will not help
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Coronavirus: Rapid serological tests will not help

Currently it is not recommended to use serological tests for the diagnosis of coronavirus, says Prof. Katarzyna Dzierzanowska-Fangrat, national consultant in the field of microbiology, in an interview with Rynek Zdrowia. Serological tests may give false negative results Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in Poland the problem of too few tests carried out…

USA: Clinical trials of coronavirus vaccine have begun
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USA: Clinical trials of coronavirus vaccine have begun

In the United States, the first human clinical trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine have already begun. It was developed by the biotechnological company Moderna Therapeutics. From sequence to vaccine testing in 63 days Due to the high epidemiological risk and the progressing pandemic, work on vaccines and, possibly, drugs for coronavirus is progressing at…

PZ Cormay to distribute coronavirus tests in Poland
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PZ Cormay to distribute coronavirus tests in Poland

PZ Cormay, a Polish manufacturer of reagents for laboratory diagnostics, will notify the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products (URLP) of two immunological reagents detecting the presence of the coronavirus causing COVID-19 disease. SNIBE’s tests available in the EU These are Maglumi reagents, i.e. 2019-nCoV IgG and 2019-nCoV IgM. They…