The principal investigator in the Health Ministry’s Ivermectin Treatment Efficacy in Covid-19 High-Risk Patients (i-Tech) study has stressed that the anti-parasitic medicine is not a miracle drug for the treatment of Covid-19.

Dr Steven Lim Chee Loon said that promoting it as such will only create a lot of false assurance among those taking it.

“It is highly irresponsible especially coming from a doctor because when you say miracle drug to laypeople, it means...