{"id":468832,"date":"2021-02-17T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T09:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=468832"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T09:46:36","slug":"illegally-imported-cuba-covid-19-drug-to-be-trialled-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/468832\/illegally-imported-cuba-covid-19-drug-to-be-trialled-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegally imported Cuba Covid-19 drug to be trialled in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African military will apply to run a clinical trial for the use of a drug known as Heberon to tackle Covid-19, ending a dispute over the illegal importation of the medicine by the defense forces, the country\u2019s health products regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, a Cuban product that contains recombinant human interferon alpha-2b, has been touted as a potential treatment for the coronavirus. It has been used to treat various forms of cancer and leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>The application will be examined by the South African Health Products Regulator, it said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began when the regulator became aware of the arrival of the drug in the country in November.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/468812\/ramaphosa-and-mkhize-first-in-line-to-get-vaccinated-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramaphosa and Mkhize first in line to get vaccinated today<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African military will apply to run a clinical trial for the use of a drug known as Heberon to tackle Covid-19, ending a dispute over the illegal importation of the medicine by the defense forces, the country\u2019s health products regulator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":468834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-468832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468836,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468832\/revisions\/468836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}