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“#Mexico authorizes remdesivir to treat COVID<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Mexico on Friday app<\/a>roved the anti-viral drug remdesivir for emergency use treating COVID-19 patients in the Latin American country, one of the worst hit by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Regulatory agency Cofepris said it had authorized the medicine for use exclusively by hospitals and specialist doctors during the early stages of the illness.<\/p>\n

Mexico joins other countries including the United States, Canada and Japan, as well as the European Commission, that have approved the treatment for use against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Remdesivir, made by US pharma giant Gilead, was one of the first drugs to show relative promise in shortening the time to recovery in some COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n

But its efficacy in reducing the mortality rate is unproven.<\/p>\n

A World Health Organization-backed study said in October that the drug had “little or no effect” on COVID mortality.<\/p>\n

Mexico, a country of 126 million people, has recorded more than 193,000 known COVID-19 deaths\u2014the world’s third-highest toll.\n <\/p>\n\n

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