WHO adds new drugs to COVID treatments amid Omicron surge

The World Health Organization (WHO) has added two more drugs to its guidelines for recommended treatments for COVID-19.

The new treatment recommendations come as the pandemic accelerates worldwide.

The recommendations were based on new evidence from seven trials involving more than 4,000 patients with non-severe, severe, and critical cases of COVID-19.

More than 15 million new cases of COVID-19 were reported to the WHO in the last week by far the most in a single week driven by the omicron variant, which is replacing the delta variant almost everywhere.