Government Releases DRDO-Developed COVID Drug for Emergency Use
The first batch of the adjunct COVID therapy drug, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) which was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in partnership with Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL), Hyderabad, was released on Monday for emergency use. An anti-COVID-19 therapeutic application of the drug 2-DG has been developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied…