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FUJIFILM intends to accelerate production of Avigan to 100,000 treatment courses per month by July and up to 300,000 by September 2020 to meet demand for possible use treating COVID-19.
Japan’s Fujifilm has expanded manufacturing capacity to boost production of its influenza drug Avigan (favipiravir), being assessed to potentially treat Covid-19.
China’s Science and Technology Ministry official Zhang Xinmin has said that Japan-based Fujifilm’s anti-flu drug Favipiravir helped Covid-19 patients recover.