The Medicines Agency (ANSM) warned on Monday that the drugs currently tested against Covid-19 could cause " serious side effects " and should " in no case " be used in self-medication, while three deaths potentially linked to these treatments have been reported.
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" Thirty " of serious adverse effects, including " three deaths " in patients with coronavirus are being investigated to determine whether these events are related or not to the treatments which have been administered to them: Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine ) but also other drugs such as Kaletra (an antiretroviral combining lopinavir / ritonavir), Dominique Martin, director general of the ANSM, told AFP.