The country has also waived the import duty on Covid-19 treatment drug remdesivir

Due to huge Covid-19 caseloads brought about by the rapid second wave of infections, the drug has been...

At least 400,000 vials marked for export have been diverted to meet India’s domestic needs

Roche’s Actemra or Sanofi’s Kevzara arthritis drugs have been found to have significantly...

Dexamethasone has been in widespread use in intensive care wards treating Covid-19 patients in some countries...

The US government trial in April showed that patients given remdesivir recovered 31% faster than those...

The Solidarity Trial started out in five parts looking at possible treatment approaches to Covid-19:...

It also comes just days after the company allocated nearly all of its supply of the antiviral to the...

The per-vial price outside of private insurance will be $390, Gilead added

Physicians can prescribe the drug in Europe once the European Commission gives its approval

It plans to make over 2m courses of the potential Covid-19 drug by 2020

While notable, the drug's effects do not appear to be miraculous: on average it reduced patients'...

The agency said the co-administration may result in reduced antiviral activity of remdesivir

Covid-19: Indian state Maharashtra to buy remdesivir from Bangladesh for trialsThe state government is...

'Although the data on its efficacy and safety is very limited at this point in time, HSA has expedited...

Remdesivir is the first drug to show improvement in Covid-19 in human trials, and its progress in clinical...

There is currently no medication shown to prevent or cure Covid-19, according to WHO

The approval comes a day after the US drugmaker reported that remdesivir showed modest benefit in patients...

'(Remdesivir) approved on June 1 under emergency use with condition for five dose...

Around 70% of patients who received remdesivir for 10 days showed improvement

Those results were seen as particularly significant as there are no approved drugs or vaccines for the...