Japan's government has given up on approving Fujifilm Holdings Corp's Avigan drug for the treatment of COVID-19 by the end of May, Kyodo News ...
FILE PHOTO: A tablet of Avigan , a drug developed as an anti-influenza treatment by a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings. TOKYO: Japan's government has given up on approving Fujifilm Holdings' Avigan drug for the treatment of COVID-19 by the end of May, Kyodo News reported late on Monday citing a government official.
Researchers at Fujita Health University, which is conducting a clinical trial on the drug, said in a statement the interim study was done to ensure the scientific validity of the trial, not to determine the efficacy of the drug. Interest in Avigan, known generically as favipiravir, soared in March after a Chinese official said it appeared to help patients recover from COVID-19, the potentially fatal respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. The drug is now the subject of at least 16 clinical trials around the world.Concerns remain about Avigan as it has been shown to cause birth defects in animal studies.
Dozens of clinical trials for potential COVID-19 treatments and vaccines are ongoing across the globe. One candidate is a DNA vaccine being developed by biopharmaceutical firm AnGes and Osaka University.
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