Currently, there is a race to produce a cure against Covid-19. There are many drug manufacturers racing against time to produce a successful candidate.
The World Health Organization has indicated that there are already many candidates being tried on human.
Remdesivir is being produced by Gilead Sciences- a US pharmaceutical company.
The drug is being tried on 1,000 patients in 75 hospitals globally. It was first tried on patients of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
