Candidate drug for treating coronavirus, favipiravir, produces promising results in early clinical trials in Russia – Russian Direct Investment Fund
Tablets of Avigan, a drug approved as an anti-influenza drug in Japan and developed by drugmaker Toyama Chemical Co, a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings Co, are displayed during a photo opportunity at Fujifilm's headquarters in Tokyo, October 22, 2014.
Drugmakers are rushing to develop treatments and vaccines for the highly contagious coronavirus that has killed over 290,000 people worldwide, infected more than 4.2 million and ravaged economies globally. The clinical trial of 330 patients infected with the coronavirus should be finished by the end of May, said Andrei Ivashchenko, a professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences and chairman of the board of directors at ChemRar, the company conducting the trials.
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