India's Glenmark to study potential COVID-19 drug combination
BENGALURU: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals said on Tuesday it would begin a clinical trial in India to test a combination of two anti-viral drugs, favipiravir and umifenovir, as a potential COVID-19 treatment.
Glenmark has secured Indian regulatory approval for the study, which will aim to enroll 158 hospitalised patients with moderate COVID-19, the company said.Drugmakers across the world have been rushing to develop a treatment or vaccine for the novel coronavirus, which has infected 5.5 million people globally, killing more than 345,000, according to a Reuters tally.
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