Japan to boost Avigan drug stockpile as part of coronavirus stimulus

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Japan is considering increasing the stockpile of Fujifilm Holding Corp's Avigan anti-flu drug during this fiscal year so it can be used to treat 2 million people, according to a planning document seen by Reuters.

FILE PHOTO: Tablets of Avigan , a drug approved as an anti-influenza drug in Japan and developed by drug maker Toyama Chemical Co, a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings Co. are displayed during a photo opportunity at Fujifilm's headquarters in Tokyo October 22, 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Local media reported on Sunday that Japan was hoping to triple the production of the drug from current levels, which is enough to treat 700,000 people if used by coronavirus patients. In the emergency stimulus package expected to be rolled out on Tuesday, the government also planned to prioritise the clinical trial process of the drug so it can be formally approved to be used in treating coronavirus patients.

The Nikkei newspaper reported on Sunday that in efforts to reduce its dependence on China as its manufacturing hub, it will subsidise companies that will move some of their production facilities back to Japan.

 

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先ず日本はアビガンを推奨してないですし、使用する場合も副作用について同意書を書かされる。 途上国が勝手に欲しがったから無料で譲るだけで、動物実験で明らかになった奇形を作る副作用について、人体へのデータを集積するためのものではない。 今後何が起きても日本を訴えるのは止めてほしい。

Ivermectin kills COVID-19 in lab , it’s an anti fungil antibiotic that’s approved for use worldwide, more studies are needed but this is a major breakthrough

Hope it works.

Motel and hotel staff, cleaners, supermarket employees, factory workers, recycle and rubbish collectors, road workers, caregivers and petrol station employees are now much more likely to come into contact with covid19. Public pressure works.

I thought this drug comes with serious side effects. I hope this medicine works regardless.

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China selling this drug through Japan

France and Egypt using 2 drugs to cure COVID19 America and around the world wake up and use these drugs antimalarial to fight virus and azithromycin to fight lung infection caused by virus CoronaVirus Coronavirustruth

What studies support its use in Covid?

It's on the way from Japan to Czechia, hope it'll help us

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