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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Oral drug handy tool to fight COVID-19 if used early

Dr. Koji Maruyama hands a bottle containing the oral antiviral drug molnupiravir to a patient in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday evening. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Dr. Koji Maruyama finished his examination of a 71-year-old man before showing him a small medicine bottle.

"This is a recently developed oral drug," Maruyama said during a house call to the man's home in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, late Sunday evening. "It helps inhibit the virus' ability to multiply."

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