Kenya buys banned drug from India ahead of virus mass tests

A box of Plaquenil, an anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine made by Sanofi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya has joined the countries “repurposing” the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine for emergency use ahead of mass testing for Covid-19.

The country has ordered a one-off consignment of 379,000 tablets of the hydroxychloroquine from India just three weeks after the Asian nation partially lifted a ban on the export of the drug.

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