EXCLUSIVE: SA to roll out chloroquine to tackle coronavirus
Local company to donate 500,000 tablets to health department for state use against Covid-19
27 March 2020 - 08:30
A local pharmaceutical company has received permission from the medical regulator to import half a million chloroquine phosphate tablets for use in severely ill Covid-19 patients.
Austell Laboratories, which is based in Parktown in Johannesburg and describes itself as the largest privately owned pharmaceutical company in the country, said this week it will donate 50,000 of boxes of 10 tablets to the department of health for state use...
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