Coronavirus: Does warmer weather help slow the spread of the virus?<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe drugs have risen to prominence since Trump said earlier this week he was taking hydroxychloroquine as preventive medicine against the virus, despite medical warnings about its use.<\/p>\n
The trial, led by the University of Oxford with the support of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, will open to UK participants at hospital sites in Brighton and Oxford and involve those who are in close contact with patients with proven or suspected COVID-19.<\/p>\n
“We really do not know if chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine are beneficial or harmful against COVID-19,” said University of Oxford’s Professor Nicholas White, the study’s co-principal investigator who is based at MORU.<\/p>\n
“The best way to find out if they are effective in preventing COVID-19 is in a randomised clinical trial.”<\/p>\n
In the UK, Europe and Africa, participants will receive either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo for three months. In Asia and Latin America, they will receive either chloroquine or a placebo.<\/p>\n
A total of 25 study sites are expected to be open in the UK by the end of June, MORU said, with plans for further sites in Thailand and Southeast Asia, Italy, Portugal, Africa and Latin America. The results are expected by the end of this year.<\/p>\n
“We are looking at this with great care and examining all of the evidence that is out there,” UK security minister James Brokenshire told Sky News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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