Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine consignment from India reaches US

Anticipating that it will work, given the initial positive results, Trump has bought more than 29 million doses of hydroxychloroquine for potential treatment of COVID-19 patients

A consignment of hydroxychloroquine from India has reached the US, days after New Delhi lifted a ban on the export of the anti-malarial drug. The ban was lifted for the US, the latest global Covid-19 hotspot, and some other countries, on humanitarian grounds to help them combat the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 1.7 million people have tested positive and 108,867 people have died from the novel coronavirus globally. The US has so far recorded 20,000 deaths and nearly 530,000 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

America has replaced Italy as the country with the highest number of COVID-19