NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump late Saturday said he had urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply hydroxychloroquine tablets that can be used to treat covid-19 patients in his country, which now has the highest number of cases in the world.
According to people familiar with the development in New Delhi, the request is under consideration with India expected to take a call after assessing its own domestic requirement of the drug that is now recognized as a prophylactic for those in the frontline of the fight against covid-19 worldwide--doctors, nurses, paramedics and first responders--as well in the treatment of covid-19 patients.
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