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2020-05-27 11:20:16
Paris: The French government has cancelled a decree allowing hospital doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to patients suffering severe forms of COVID-19.
Wednesday's announcement comes two days after the World Health Organisation said it was pausing a large trial of the malaria drug due to safety concerns.
British medical journal The Lancet has reported that patients getting hydroxychloroquine had increased death rates and irregular heartbeats, adding to a series of other disappointing results for the drug as a way to treat COVID-19.
US President Donald Trump and others have pushed hydroxychloroquine in recent months as a possible coronavirus treatment.