Russia to roll out its first approved Covid-19 drug next weekworldUpdated: Jun 01, 2020 15:41 ISTRussia will start giving its first drug approved to treat Covid-19 to patients next week, its state financial backer told Reuters, a move it hopes will ease strains on the health system and speed a return to normal economic life. He said the company behind the drug would manufacture enough to treat around 60,000 people a month. There is currently no vaccine for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, and human trials of several existing antiviral drugs have yet to show efficacy. Also read | India’s Covid-19 tally surges beyond 190,500 with highest single-day spike of 8,392 casesJapan has been trialling the same drug, known there as Avigan. Avifavir appeared on a Russian government list of approved drugs on Saturday.

Source: Hindustan Times June 01, 2020 10:06 UTC