Chloroquine has been identified as one of the possible methods of treatment for the recent outbreak of coronavirus which has taken the lives of thousands of people in China.
This news as reported by Pharmaceutical Technology China confirmed that Chloroquine is important in treating coronavirus.
The other drugs are Remdesivir and Fapilavir. The three medications have been approved by the National Medical Products Administration of China to treat the virus.
According to China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, Favilavir is one of the three drugs that showed encouraging profile for blocking the new coronavirus in early clinical trials.
Fapilavir demonstrated significant effect with mild side effects in a medical clinical trial in the Guangdong province of China.
China Daily reported that the Taizhou government in Zhejiang province announced the approval, which marks the authorisation of the first drug against the new coronavirus.
Fapilavir allegedly demonstrated efficacy with minor side effects in an ongoing 70-patient clinical trial in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The drug’s generic version received the approval.
Production of the anti-viral drug was begun on Sunday, added the news agency.
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