Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited has unveiled top-line results from its Phase III clinical trial with favipiravir, indicating that early treatment with the antiviral improves clinical outcomes for mild-to-moderate patients and potentially prevent their condition from worsening to acute respiratory distress syndrome or death.
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Glenmark's Phase III trial of the antiviral points to efficacy in mild-to-moderate COVID-19, but many physicians in India remain skeptical.

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