The Government of Venezuela says it has started the certification process for a drug that would inhibit covid-19 | CNN

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The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez announced this Monday the start of the certification and registration procedures with the World Health Organization (WHO) of a molecule that "inhibits 100%" the coronavirus.

"We want to inform that we have formalized this study, this finding, before the WHO to initiate the international procedures that correspond with a view to the certification and registration of this very important and transcendental finding," Rodríguez said this Monday from Caracas.

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A video shared this Monday by the government shows Rodríguez and the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, meeting with Dr. Pier Paolo Balladelli, WHO representative in Venezuela.

"We had the possibility and opportunity to share with Balladelli, we gave him precise information about this line of research being carried out by the Venezuelan scientific community," said Rodríguez.

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The questioned president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, explained on Sunday that, in "preclinical studies", a group of Venezuelan researchers identified and isolated "a molecule belonging to a medicinal plant" that inhibits the coronavirus 100%.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology, Maduro said that it is the DR-10 molecule and that it is a highly effective antiviral component against the new coronavirus.

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At the moment, there is no scientific evidence to support the claims of the Venezuelan authorities.

Until this Tuesday, according to data from the Maduro government, Venezuela registers 777 deaths related to the coronavirus and more than 90,000 cases.

Of these patients, authorities say 84,444 have recovered.