Antiviral activity of chloroquine against coronaviruses discovered at KU Leuven in 2004

Chloroquine, an antimalarial medicine that has been on the international market since 1934, proves to be active against the novel SARS coronavirus type 2 (COVID-19). The antiviral activity of chloroquine was already discovered in 2004 by a team of virologists at KU Leuven.

Experts from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology confirmed at a press conference on 17 February that chloroquine has a curative effect in clinical trials on patients with COVID-19. The trials were conducted in patients in 10 hospitals in Beijing, Hunan, and Guangdong. ...

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