Russia to start using its first drug approved to treat Covid-19

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MOSCOW: Russia will roll out its first drug approved to treat Covid-19 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. Russian hospitals can begin giving the...

Mr Dmitriev said clinical trials of the drug had been conducted involving 330 people, and had shown it successfully treated the virus in most cases within four days.

Clinical trials to test the efficacy of drugs usually take many months, even when expedited, and involve large numbers of patients randomly assigned who receive either the drug being trialled or a placebo. Mr Dmitriev said Russia was able to cut testing timescales because the Japanese generic drug which Avifavir is based on was first registered in 2014 and had undergone significant testing before Russian specialists modified it.

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