Until now, the treatment of patients with coronavirus in Poland has been carried out mainly in homogeneous infectious diseases hospitals. According to the latest recommendations of the Ministry of Health, all hospitals are to be ready to treat patients with COVID-19. The hospitals are to separate three zones According to Waldemar Kraska, Deputy Minister of…
Worldwide, the number of people infected with the coronavirus has exceeded 1 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Interestingly, nearly a quarter of these people come from the US. US: 240,000 coronavirus deaths? The United States has grown to be the world’s “leader” in terms of the number of people infected with COVID-19…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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