DRDO’s 2DG anti-Covid-19 drug has been priced at Rs 990 per sachet by Dr Reddy’s lab. Government officials were quoted by ANI saying that central and state government hospitals would be provided with the medicine at a discounted price.
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had on Thursday said that 10,000 sachets of the anti-COVID drug will be available in the market.
The 2-DG drug developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) could be a game-changer in the fight against COVID, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar had said last week.
The 2-DG (2-deoxy-D-glucose), an anti-COVID-19 therapeutic application of the drug has been developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), in collaboration with Dr Reddys Laboratories (DRL), Hyderabad. Clinical trial results have shown that this molecule helps in the faster recovery of hospitalised patients and reduces supplemental oxygen dependence.