Uttar Pradesh Government in India Publicly Claims Early Use of Ivermectin Helped State Maintain Lower COVID-19 Cases and Deaths
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that 33 districts in Uttar Pradesh, India have now become free from COVID-19 government informed on Friday. The recovery rate has increased up to 98.7% proving the effectiveness of IVERMECTIN as part of the “Uttar Pradesh Covid Control Model.” Of course, the fake fact-checkers flagged TGP’s article and claimed that there’s “no scientific basis for claims of Ivermectin’s success in Uttar Pradesh, India.”
The fake fact-checkers were lying again.
This news was not given enough attention at the time but the government of Uttar Pradesh, India claimed that the large-scale use of Ivermectin as early treatment for coronavirus helped the state maintain a lower fatality and positivity rate.
This is despite its massive population of 241 million people based on a report last May 2021.
The Indian Express reported:
He [Uttar Pradesh State Surveillance Officer Vikssendu Agrawal] said that apart from aggressive contact tracing and surveillance, the lower positivity and fatality rates may be attributed to the large-scale use of Ivermectin use in the state, adding that the drug has recently been introduced in the National Protocol for Covid treatment and management. “Once the second wave subsides, we would conduct our own study as there has been an emerging body of evidence to substantiate our timely use of Ivermectin from the first wave itself,” Vikasendu told The Indian Express.
Agra District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh also attributed the state’s relative success in keeping the Covid numbers down to the timely nod to the use of Ivermectin as a prophylactic. He added that government doctor Anshul Pareek had approached him last year citing use of the medicine abroad.
“We reported the first Covid-19 cluster in the country after five members of a family, who had returned from Italy, tested positive. Soon, the virus spread, with a large number of police personnel getting affected. Doctor Pareek approached me with a request to introduce Ivermectin on an experimental basis. I was told there are no risks involved with the use of the drug,” Singh told The Indian Express.
He said the district administration had formed small groups of personnel from the same police station as well staffers at his office. “We introduced it (Ivermectin) for three days, 12 mg as advised in the national guidelines at the time, followed by tests on the fourth or fifth day. We introduced it in the jail as well and the results helped us reduce positivity to a great extent, following which Additional Chief Secretary Health Amit Mohan formed a committee to access its usage and it was finally introduced in the state’s Covid management protocol in 2020 itself,” Singh said.
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As of November 12, Uttar Pradesh recorded only 9 cases COVID-19
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