Ivermectin has shown promise against Covid-19 in a clinical trial and patients receiving a five-day course of ivermectin have shown an early viral clearance and improvements of blood biomarkers compared with other two groups.

A highly respected physician and professor of medicine at Bangladesh Medical College (BMC) has been using a combination of two cheap, easily available drugs to treat patients suffering from COVID-19 with great success in reducing the viral load and restricting the severity of disease.

icddr,b has started a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of anti-parasitic medicine Ivermectin in combination with antibiotic doxycycline or Ivermectin alone.