Chloroquine

EU to authorise drug remdesivir for severe Covid-19 cases

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that the drug remdesivir be “conditionally” sold for the treatment of severe Covid-19 in the EU, making it the first Covid-19 drug set to be authorised in Europe.

Controversial French prof: ‘I could have halved Covid death’

Controversial French infectious diseases specialist, Professor Didier Raoult, has said that “if people had listened to me, we would have had half the number of deaths from coronavirus”, in a new interview.

Let French medics prescribe 'Covid cure' drug

Paris lawyers are taking court action to suspend a series of ministerial decrees banning doctors from prescribing controversial drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative or treatment for Covid-19.

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Doctors support testing of another Covid-19 drug

French doctors have come out in support of more testing of ivermectin - which could be more effective against Covid-19 than chloroquine - and is already the subject of a multi-million euro study in Montpellier.

Covid-19 France: petition for wider chloroquine access

UPDATE [April 10, 14:00]: The petition has now reached 471,000 signatures. A petition calling for the relaxation of rules on prescribing chloroquine for coronavirus sufferers has been signed by more than 220,000 people in three days.

Limited chloroquine use against Covid-19 approved

Use of the drug chloroquine, more commonly used to treat malaria, has been officially authorised for ‘serious’ forms of Covid-19.

Chloroquine

EU to authorise drug remdesivir for severe Covid-19 cases

Controversial French prof: ‘I could have halved Covid death’

Let French medics prescribe 'Covid cure' drug

Doctors support testing of another Covid-19 drug

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Covid-19 France: petition for wider chloroquine access

Limited chloroquine use against Covid-19 approved