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China grants patent to new COVID-19 medicine

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May 13, 2022 

China on Tuesday granted a patent for a new COVID-19 medicine, which is said to be able to drastically slow down the copying of the coronavirus that caused the ongoing pandemic.

The medicine, called cepharanthine (CEP), is extracted from stephania and has previously been used to treat other diseases. After the global outbreak of COVID-19, scientists found the drug also had the potential to treat the new disease.

"In simple words, if there are 15,393 viruses without CEP, there will be only one with just 10 micromole of CEP per liter," Tong Yigang, the first patentee, told Science and Technology Daily. "That means a tiny bit of CEP can stop the virus from spreading."

Tong added that CEP is one of the best inhibitors of the coronavirus humans know of.

(Sources: China Report)

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