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The new advisory panel will support countries in clinical trials, other research and development of traditional therapies as the pandemic now spread rapidly in parts of Africa.
Confirmed cases on the continent have nearly reached 750,000, more than half of them in South Africa.
A WHO statement says traditional medicine “has many benefits” and the continent has a long history of its use.
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