Coronavirus: Plan B 'should be implemented' says Dr Amir
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Researchers have identified a potential new treatment that suppresses the replication of coronavirus.
To multiply, viruses like COVID-19, infect cells and reprogramme them to produce novel viruses.
A new study found that cells infected with coronavirus can only produce when something known as their metabolic pentose phosphate pathway is activated.
When applying the drug benfooxythiamine, an inhibitor of this pathway, the virus was suppressed and infected cells did not produce coronaviruses.
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