Taiwan approves dexamethasone as coronavirus treatment

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TAIPEI: Taiwan provisionally approved the use of dexamethasone, a cheap and widely-used steroid, to treat the new coronavirus, as the island faces a shortfall of the antiviral drug remdesivir after the US bought nearly all global supplies.

Taiwan’s official Central News Agency said this week that stocks on the island of US drugmaker Gilead’s Covid-19 medicine remdesivir were low. Remdesivir is the only drug so far authorised in the European Union to treat patients with severe symptoms of Covid-19.

 

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