PM Mitsotakis meets with Israeli Professor Arber; clinical trials of medicine against COVID-19 start in Greece

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Thursday with Israeli Professor of Medicine Nadir Arber who is responsible for the new therapy against COVID-19 developed at the Medical Centre Ichilov in Tel Aviv.

At the meeting, that was held at the Maximos Mansion in the presence of infectious diseases professor Sotiris Tsiodras and Alternate Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis, they discussed the developments regarding the start of the clinical trials in Greece of the new Israeli medicine against the serious complications of COVID-19 disease.

The clinical trials in Greece will be initially held in three Greek hospitals, two at Sotiria hospital and one at Attikon University Hospital.

Issues of broader cooperation in the sector of biotechnology were also discussed while Arber extended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warm regards to Mitsotakis.