Kenya is seeking Japan’s flu drug as cases hit 184

A display of Favipiravir, a drug believed to have been effective against the Japanese flu. [Photo: Courtesy]

The Ministry of Health is in talks with the Japanese government to try an antiviral drug, used against influenza, in the treatment of the coronavirus.

Though not among the four drugs and drug combinations commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO), under the Solidarity Trials 1, favipiravir is said to have shown promising results when used in patients with the coronavirus.