EU to authorise drug remdesivir for severe Covid-19 cases The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that the drug remdesivir be 鈥渃onditionally鈥� 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: 鈥業 could have halved Covid death鈥� Controversial French infectious diseases specialist, Professor Didier Raoult, has said that 鈥渋f people had listened to me, we would have had half the number of deaths from coronavirus鈥�, 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.
news 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 鈥榮erious鈥� forms of Covid-19.
