The race is on in the drug battle against the coronavirus

Developing a new drug usually takes years, but scientists are racing against that clock to repurpose existing medications or preapproved substances to try to quickly manufacture an antiviral drug to battle Covid-19.As the pandemic hit more countries around the world and death tolls rose, the World Health Organisation identified four medications last week and started a global trial, calling it Solidarity. Two of them are drug cocktails.They include remdesivir, a preapproved drug originally…

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