The Subject Expert Committee (SEC) has asked CDSCO to submit data of the reported serious adverse event (SAE), a single death, from the clinical trials of the drug combination of Favipiravir + Umifenovir by Glenmark Pharmaceuticals.
Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), a constituent lab of India-based Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has secured approval for carrying out Phase III trial for the use of Umifenovir in the treatment of Covid-19.
CSIR-CDRI has developed the process technology for Umifenovir and licensed the process technology for manufacturing and marketing of the drug to Medizest Pharmaceuticals, Goa, which has already received test license from DCGI.