Russian drug for treating coronavirus delivered to Uzbekistan

25.09.2020

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, and ChemRar Group have agreed to supply Avifavir, the world’s first favipiravir-based drug registered against coronavirus infection and Russia’s first drug approved for the treatment of COVID-19, to 17 countries.

The drug has already been delivered to Belarus, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...