Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailThe UK has 240,000 doses of new coronavirus drug dexamethasone in stock or on order, Matt Hancock has announced. "It's the first time that anyone in the world has clinically proven that a drug can improve the survival chances for the most seriously ill coronavirus patients." Speaking at the daily Downing Street press conference, Boris Johnson appeared unaware of the ban on parallel exports of the drug. Parallel exporting means buying medicines placed on the market in the UK for UK patients in order to sell them in another country in the European Economic Area (EEA). But he added: "Dexamethasone, as I understand it, is a drug that is produced around the world.

Source: Daily Mirror June 17, 2020 12:01 UTC