Didier Raoult says that chloroquine is a remedy for Covid-19 and that this drug must be prescribed now. The government cannot resolve this until all the tests have been completed.
Chloroquine is a molecule usually used to prevent malaria, this disease transmitted by mosquitoes. Professor Raoult is currently using it in his Marseille hospital for trials with patients suffering from coronavirus.
Six days after giving it to patients with Covid-19, he said, only 25% of them were still carrying the virus, while 90% of those who had not received this treatment were still positive.
If some of his colleagues do not take him seriously, questioning his methods and the results of his therapeutic trials, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announced on Saturday March 21 that this treatment would be tested "on a larger scale "