Russia has the world’s third-highest toll of coronavirus infections after the United States and Brazil, and after almost 50 different vaccine projects, Russia has approved an anti-influenza drug to treat Covid-19 and will start delivering courses of the drug, Avifavir, to hospitals in June. 

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday (April 27) that Japan will soon approve the anti-viral drug remdesivir for the treatment of coronavirus patients, while a government official said separately that the drug will be approved as early as next month, reported Kyodo News.

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