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Health Minister Nelu Tătaru announced Tuesday night that there are 4,000 bottles of Remdesivir in warehouses, but it should not be seen as a “savings item”.
Nelu Tătaru was asked, on Tuesday night, on TVR 1, if there are problems with the supply of Remdesivir.
“At the beginning of July, we used 11,892 vials in Remdesivir therapy. We currently have 4,000 bottles in warehouses. This Remdesivir treatment is a treatment that is part of the protocol, in different cases selected according to certain criteria, that the current doctor accepts for that. It is a treatment that is given for five days, “Tătaru responded, quoted by Mediafax.
The president of America also benefited from Remdesivir, also for five days, added the minister.
“But we should not see it as a savings element. (…) We have around five antivirals that are being administered at the moment,” said Nelu Tătaru.
The Health Minister’s statement comes in the context of several European countries facing a crisis in the supply of the antiviral Remdesivir, their stocks running low as the number of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increases, and the US. shopping for the summer. which spent most of the production of this drug from the American company Gilead.
