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Hope as Ebola treatment drug shows signs of curing Covid-19

Clinical trials show remdesivir accelerates recovery in advanced coronavirus patients.

Researchers in the US now say that a drug originally developed to treat Ebola has shown positive signs in Covid-19 patients. 

According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), patients hospitalised with advanced Covid-19 and lung involvement who received remdesivir recovered faster than similar patients who received a placebo.

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