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Malaria drug fails Covid-19 cure test

Governor Mike Sonko passes through a sanitising booth shortly after its launch at Kencom bus stop in Nairobi on Sunday, April 19, 2020. [David Njaaga, Standard]

A drug taunted to have the potential to treat Covid-19 has failed clinical trials conducted in three countries.

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