South Korea has unveiled a set of
treatment guidelines for Ovid 19 it
consists of administrating an anti HIV
medication twice a day this is a
nation's first treatment protocol for
those who show severe symptoms Kim Jae
has our top story
infectious disease experts in South
Korea have agreed to the use of
antiviral drugs in the treatment of
severe coronavirus cases senior patients
and those with underlying diseases on
the other hand it was concluded that
young patients or those with mild
symptoms seem to have improved after 10
days and without any antiviral treatment
young and healthy people have mostly
shown improvement without any special
treatment for older patients or those
underlying diseases or in need of the
medication from an early stage experts
says this difference in treatment
depending on a patient's age is actually
quite normal
most viral infections tend to heal even
without any treatment thanks for our
body's immune system but old age in
itself can raise risks and many senior
patients have underlying diseases so
it's recommended that they undergo
antiviral treatment the government's
guidelines recommended lettre an
antiretroviral medication used to treat
AIDS for a duration of seven to ten days
chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine a
medication used to prevent and treat
malaria can be used as an alternative
but experts says while the government's
announcement may sound promising it
might not make much of a difference to
current treatment methods there won't be
a significant difference in the
treatment methods it's an antiviral drug
that we're already using and its
effectiveness has not been fully proven
it's still just a recommendation but the
expert is optimistic saying that the
recurrence rate of the novel coronavirus
is low it seems unlikely that a
recovered patient will catch the virus
again in fact there are very few reports
of patients being reinfected when
they've recovered from other coronavirus
diseases such as SARS or MERS he added
that all seven of the patients who have
made full recoveries in South Korea had
no serious underlying diseases and are
unlikely to be infected
kim daehee Arirang news
