Controversial malaria drug for COVID-19 cases on way to Australia

Daily Telegraph

4 April 2020 - Australia has secured 2,000 courses of an anti-malaria drug that are to be shipped here and available for doctors and hospitals to use on coronavirus cases, federal health minister Greg Hunt told Sky News Australia this morning.

“I’m very pleased to be able to say we’ve just had confirmed from overseas overnight that one of the international manufacturers will provide 2000 courses for Australian patients of hydroxychloroquine - the condition is it has to be used in hospital on patients,” he told host Tim Gilbert.

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