It is called remdesivir and is a high-spectrum drug, developed by the American pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences. This medication can prove to be vital in the treatment of coronavirus.
This new treatment is now being tested in patients with a positive diagnosis of covid-19.
According to the BBC, the first ‘guinea pig’ is an American who was repatriated from Japan, where he was quarantined on the ship ‘Diamond Princess’.
In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) had already revealed that remdesivir had shown signs of being able to treat the virus. “There is only one drug that we believe can be really effective and that is remedying,” Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO China Commission, said in a press conference. Bruce Aylward also said that clinical trials of the drug would begin and that the results would be known within weeks.
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