The Indian drug regulator has cleared the first anti-viral Covid-19 pill: Molnupiravir.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Molnupiravir was initially developed to treat influenza. Now it is being repurposed as an oral antiviral candidate to treat Covid-19 patients.<\/span><\/p>\n How does the drug work? <\/b><\/p>\n It works by introducing errors<\/strong> into the SARS-CoV-2 virus\u2019 genetic code, which prevents the virus from further replicating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The drug has been cleared for the treatment of adult patients with Covid-19 and who have a high risk of progression of the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n The drug i<\/span>s not authorised for use in patients less than 18 years,<\/strong> and initiation of treatment in patients requiring immediate hospitalisation.<\/span><\/p>\n The drug can be <\/span>taken orally every 12 hours for five days.<\/span><\/p>\n The United Kingdom<\/strong> (UK) became the first country to approve drug regulator Molnupiravir.<\/span><\/p>\n US<\/strong> has also cleared Molnupiravir in \u2018certain adults’.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article \u2018<\/b>Explained: What is Molnupiravir, the Covid-19 pill approved by India?<\/b>\u2019<\/b> published in Indian Express <\/b>on 29th<\/sup> Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? The Indian drug regulator has cleared the first anti-viral Covid-19 pill: Molnupiravir. What is Molnupiravir? Molnupiravir was initially developed to treat influenza. Now it is being repurposed as an oral antiviral candidate to treat Covid-19 patients. How does the drug work? It works by introducing errors into the SARS-CoV-2 virus\u2019 genetic… Continue reading Explained: What is Molnupiravir, the Covid-19 pill approved by India?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-156925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704855041},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Molnupiravir?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Has any other countries cleared Molnupiravir for Covid-19?<\/b><\/h5>\n