Things could be looking up in the search for a treatment for the deadly coronavirus as the laboratory which first made Viagra claims to have made a breakthrough.
Scientists at pharmaceutical company Pfizer believe they may have identified a molecule that was originally collated to fight the 2003 SARS crisis that may be effective in treating the current COVID-19 outbreak.
The scientific team are working around the clock in the same British labs in Sandwich, Kent, where Peter Dunn and Albert Wood discovered Viagra – the drug that combats erectile dysfunction – in 1997.
Doctor Brian Henry, the Vice President of drug product design at Pfizer, has expressed his excitement at the discovery and the fact that a team of 25 scientists are now