MELBOURNE : Australian researchers on Monday claimed to have found two drugs — an HIV and an anti-malaria medicines — to treat novel coronavirus which has claimed five lives and infected over 350 others in the country. One of the two medications is an HIV drug, and the other is an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine. "We're not on a flat foot, we can sort of move ahead very rapidly with enrolling Australians in this trial," Paterson said. "Our doctors were very, very surprised that a HIV drug could actually work against the novel coronavirus and there was a bit of scepticism," he said. "That first wave of Chinese patients we had (in Australia), they all did very, very well when they were treated with the HIV drug.

Source: Mint March 16, 2020 10:52 UTC