"So far, unfortunately, no one has it (drugs for COVID-19. -
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), although we are also completing the development of a drug that interrupts the course of the disease at the initial stage of infection," he said in an interview with TASS.
Murashko added that he will tell more detailed information after the completion of the tests.
There are other drugs that are already being used to treat coronavirus patients, he said.
“Perhaps, only one foreign drug has been limited in supply, the manufacturers do not physically have time to produce what is needed for the whole world.
We made an alternative drug.
It is necessary to have a domestic line, ”the minister explained.
Earlier it became known that the first injectable drug for the treatment of coronavirus infection "Areplivir" was registered in Russia.