BEIJING/BANGKOK: As doctors scramble to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus, a potent brew of anti-retroviral and flu drugs has emerged as a possible defence against the disease that has killed hundreds. Here is what we know -- and don't know -- about the drugs deployed against the SARS-like virus. But seasonal flu is "very different from the Chinese coronavirus", said Sylvie van der Werf at the Paris-based Pasteur Institute. So far the new coronavirus has infected tens of thousands worldwide and killed more than 420 people, mostly in mainland China. But random trials on 41 coronavirus patients had "limitations", according to research published in The Lancet on January 24.

Source: The Star February 04, 2020 12:56 UTC