Taiwan provisionally approves widely used steroid dexamethasone to treat coronavirus

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TAIPEI (REUTERS) - Taiwan provisionally approved the use of dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, to treat Covid-19, as the island faces a shortfall of the antiviral drug remdesivir after the United States bought nearly all global supplies.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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TAIPEI - Taiwan provisionally approved the use of dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, to treat Covid-19, as the island faces a shortfall of the antiviral drug remdesivir after the United States bought nearly all global supplies.

Taiwan has reported 476 cases of Covid-19, including seven deaths. Most of the cases are imported and almost all have recovered. It has kept numbers low thanks to early and effective prevention work. Taiwan had originally ordered 2,000 doses to arrive by the end of July, but had only 78 in stock, enough to treat 54 seriously-ill patients, the report said.

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