Japan final month additionally authorized the usage of dexamethasone to deal with COVID-19 (File)
Taipei:
Taiwan provisionally authorized the usage of dexamethasone, an affordable and widely-used steroid, to deal with the brand new coronavirus, because the island faces a shortfall of the antiviral drug remdesivir after the United States purchased practically all world provides.
Taiwan Centres for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang instructed reporters on Tuesday that medical specialists had determined to provisionally permit dexamethasone to be listed as a COVID-19 remedy however that procedures nonetheless wanted to be accomplished earlier than it might be given to any sufferers.
Taiwan has reported 476 circumstances of the brand new coronavirus, together with seven deaths. Most of the circumstances are imported and nearly all have recovered. It has stored numbers low due to early and efficient prevention work.
Taiwan’s official Central News Agency stated this week that shares on the island of US drugmaker Gilead’s COVID-19 medication remdesivir have been low.
Taiwan had initially ordered 2,000 doses to reach by the tip of July, however had solely 78 in inventory, sufficient to deal with 54 seriously-ill sufferers, the report stated.
Remdesivir is the one drug to this point authorised within the European Union to deal with sufferers with extreme signs of COVID-19.
Remdesivir is in excessive demand after the intravenously-administered medication helped to shorten hospital restoration instances in a medical trial.
But in outcomes introduced in June, a trial by researchers within the United Kingdom confirmed dexamethasone as the primary drug to avoid wasting lives of COVID-19 sufferers in what scientists stated was a significant breakthrough within the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan final month additionally authorized the usage of dexamethasone to deal with COVID-19.
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