Remdesivir : Trending Pharmaceutical Component for Treating COVID-19
Remdesivir Remdesivir, an injectable anti-viral medicine repurposed for Covid-19 cure, has been flying off the shelves of dispensaries over the last few weeks ever since India commenced reporting a steep rise in cases of the novel coronavirus. Due to the improved demand, the export of Remdesivir and its Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) has banned the by the Centre. Remdesivir, which was cleared by the country's top drug regulator for controlled use in a disaster situation in June 2020, is being used in treatment of Covid-19 patients with severe complications. What is Remdesivir? Remdesivir is an anti-viral drug that prevents further replication of a virus. Initially it was used to treat Hepatitis C and Ebola. How does Remdesivir work? Viruses have either DNA or RNA as their genetic material. Coronaviruses are RNA viruses. The novel coronavirus creates copies of itself inside the human cell with the help of an enzyme called RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Remd