PH stops using malaria drug for Covid

By Jan Arcilla

May 27, 2020 12:19 am

THE Department of Health on Tuesday said it would stop using hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) following the move of the World Health Organization (WHO) to suspend the use of the drug.

This file photograph taken on May 20, 2020, shows a bottle and pills of Hydroxychloroquine as they sit on a counter at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah. The French Medicines Agency announced on May 26, 2020, that it had 'launched' the procedure for suspending 'as a precaution' the inclusion of new patients in clinical trials evaluating hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19, following the WHO's decision after the publication of an unfavourable study. / AFP / GEORGE FREY

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