Chloroquine phosphate is being produced in China, with hopes that the anti-malaria drug could suppress the symptoms of coronavirusSeveral drugs are being tested as potential antidotes to Covid-19. They range from an anti-malaria medicine discovered 86 years ago to an experimental treatment for ebola. ChloroquineThere are high hopes for this decades-old anti-malaria drug and a derivative called hydroxychloroquine. A trial involving 36 French patients showed that 70 per cent of those given it recovered from Covid-19 within six days. However, the drug is cheap, relatively safe and there are signs that it “reduces viral load and there is a clear

Source: The Times March 20, 2020 17:03 UTC