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Delhi govt sets up two control rooms for monitoring supply of 'COVID-19 management drugs'
•In an order on Monday, the govt said that the move sought to address reports of 'acute shortage of the medicines due to a sudden rise in cases' in the National Capital
Search for effective COVID-19 treatments faltered as vaccine research soared
•Even with a handful of available treatments efforts, to repurpose other drugs or discover new ones have not had much success
Anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine ineffective against coronavirus, reveal UK RECOVERY Trials
Myupchar •The results of the study, published by NEJM, showed that COVID-19 patients who did not need mechanical ventilation to begin with had a higher likelihood of needing ventilation or dying when they were put on hydroxychloroquine
Antibody drug could prevent COVID-19 hospitalizations, says Eli Lilly based on partial trial results
•The drug may keep mild to moderately ill COVID-19 patients from hospitalized, a goal no current COVID-19 drug has managed to do.
Zenara Pharma gets DCGI approval to sell Favipiravir tablet Favizen to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 infections
•The company is in talks with various institutions to make the tablets available at discounted or no cost to underprivileged patients.
Novartis to make no profit on 15 drugs to treat COVID-19 symptoms in low-income countries
•These include medicines ranging from antibiotics and steroids to diarrhea pills to 79 countries on the World Bank’s list of low- and lower-middle-income nations.
Everything you need to know about Favipiravir, the potential drug for COVID-19 treatment
Myupchar •Favipiravir is a broad-spectrum antiviral drug that was originally made to treat the flu in Japan.
Coronavirus Outbreak: US becomes world's first country to record over 2,000 COVID-19 deaths in single day
•The COVID-19 positive cases in the United States are now more than the other top countries taken together: Spain (158,000), Italy (147,000), Germany (122,000) and France (112,000).
Donald Trump says 10 COVID-19 drugs under clinical trial in US as part of govt's 'unprecedented' effort to find solution to coronavirus outbreak
•Responding to questions, Vice President Mike Pence said the US was having four separate clinical trials on the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.
COVID-19 India Roundup: Cases cross 5,000, hotspots in UP and East Delhi sealed, lockdown likely to be lifted in phases
Myupchar •According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), 5,194 cases have been confirmed so far, 773 of which were confirmed in the last 24 hours.