BREAKING: Remdesivir has been approved as the first treatment option for COVID-19 in Australia. 9News
"TGA's approval was able to be made within 2 weeks of the receipt of the submission with a large multidisciplinary review team at TGA working around the clock."European Medicines AgencyOne vial of the drug Remdesivir lies during a press conference about the start of a study with the Ebola drug Remdesivir in particularly severely ill patients at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, northern Germany on April 8, 2020, amidst the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
Remdesivir has been at the centre of controversy in the US, where maker of the drug Gilead Sciences had announced patients in the"We're in uncharted territory with pricing a new medicine, a novel medicine, in a pandemic," Gilead's chief executive, Dan O'Day, told The Associated Press.
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