Hospital patients sick with the virus will be given the drug to see if it can help with their breathing.
Scientists are running a trial to see if ibuprofen can help hospital patients who are sick with coronavirus.
The trial will use a special formulation of ibuprofen rather than the regular tablets that people might usually buy. Some people already take this lipid capsule form of the drug for conditions like arthritis. Prof Mitul Mehta, one of the team at King's College London, said:"We need to do a trial to show that the evidence actually matches what we expect to happen."
These were heightened when France's health minister Oliver Veran said that taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, could aggravate the infection and advised patients to take paracetamol instead.
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