This Hungarian city will produce the medicine easing the symptoms of the coronavirus

The Alkaloida Ltd. in the Eastern-Hungarian city of Tiszavasvári is only waiting for the permission of the authorities. If that arrives, they can start the mass production of a medicine easing the symptoms of the virus. This pill is being made for Hungarian patients in the first place, and exporting its active substance is forbidden by the government.

László Pallos, the purchasing director of the company, said that their aim is not to sell the active agent but to provide pills, Világgazdaság wrote.  He added that Alkaloida Ltd. can make the 200 mg Hydroxychloroquine pills because it has already been registered in the United States, and it has been exporting there for a couple of years. However, it does not have permission to sell in Hungary, so the authorities and the company are working day and night to do it as soon as possible.

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If the company uses the whole amount of the active agent, they can produce 20 million 200-mg pills, which is enough for more than 2.2 million patients. Mr Pallos added that they can make 900 thousand pills each day. Based on current data, 50 pills are needed for the treatment of one patient.