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India lifts restrictions on HCQ exports as country is well stocked

Exports were happening on humanitarian grounds but with necessary permission

Covid-19 crisis: Hydroxychloroquine halted in WHO-funded trials

Trump has touted the antimalarial as a treatment for the coronavirus since the early weeks of the global outbreak, calling it a "game-changer," but its prospects have faded

HCQ's emergency use revocation by US may not hit India's exports

This is because while emergency-use authorisation for treating Covid-19 was a recent move, the drug has been used since years for rheumatoid arthritis and lupus

Health ministry okays remdesivir, HCQ to treat Covid-19 under authorisation

In the new set of protocols, the ministry has removed its earlier recommendation of using hydroxychloroquine in combination with azithromycin in severe cases

Divided by virus: When leaders exploit a crisis in cynical self-interest

The pandemic debate is all divided by ideology and top BJP leaders are exploiting a grave crisis in cynical political self-interest. The result looks like nobody is in control

Dharavi, HCQ & some questions

Why was the trial of the drug on Dharavi residents put on hold? What prompted the authorities to restart? What connection does the coming US election have with all this?

Best of BS Opinion: Unlocking Delhi, Covid-19 crisis, GDP growth, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day.

Breaching the Covid 19 Maginot Line?

About 90% of the global mortality was in the northerly latitudes, above roughly 30 degrees north

Amidst controversy, Indian companies continue to manufacture HCQ

Once touted as a 'wonder drug', HCQ has been battling global controversies around its safety and efficacy as a prophylactic against the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

India coronavirus dispatch: Visualising a response moving forward

From patients struggling to find hospital beds, to the crisis moving to India's rural areas, and what a new study says about hydroxychloroquine - read these and more in today's India dispatch

Coronavirus: Lancet retracts study claiming death risk from use of HCQ

Based on this development, we can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources, the retraction statement noted

Is India right in recommending HCQ despite the uncertainties around it?

HCQ was dropped from the solidarity trial that WHO was conducting as a part of a global effort in May.

HCQ fails to prevent virus infection if exposed to Covid-19, says Study

Almost 90 per cent of the participants, according to the study, reported a high-risk exposure to a confirmed Covid-19 contact

World coronavirus dispatch: Brazil's daily new deaths, cases at record high

From how Prince Charles 'got away lightly', to cheap beach holidays targetting locals, and why Africa has to weather the storm without massive stimulus - read these and more in today's world dispatch

Malaria drug Trump used to prevent Covid-19 found ineffective in major test

Hydroxychloroquine did not seem to cause serious harm but was no better than placebo pills, says medical journal.

Covid-19 crisis: WHO says HCQ trials can resume, safety test done

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that it will resume recruiting patients for the hydroxychloroquine arm of a global trial called Solidarity.

Four or more dosage of HCQ helped health workers ward off Covid-19: ICMR

According to the National Task Force for Covid-19 in India recommended once a week maintenance dose for seven weeks (400 mg once weekly), following the loading dose (400 mg bd)

Scientists question validity of major hydroxychloroquine study

A spokeswoman for Mandeep R Mehra, the Harvard professor who was the paper's lead author, said on Friday that the study's authors had asked for an independent academic review and audit of their work.

Resume hydroxychloroquine trials as Lancet's study incorrect: CSIR, others

It also stated that the decision of WHO to temporarily suspend quality HCQ trials based on findings of the Lancet study appears to be a "knee-jerk reaction"

Protection to fashion

They must be worn and taken off properly to ensure any contaminated surfaces don't to­u­ch the face, and if reusable, washed re­gularly