Over 17 kg of drugs seized in Chinese border province

22:09, March 21, 2020

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  Iran to mass produce Chinese coronavirus drug: official

  A staff member works at Sichuan International Travel Health Care Center, in Chengdu, southwest Chinas Sichuan, Feb. 15, 2020. (File photo: Xinhua)Cairo (People’s Daily) - An Iranian health official says the raw materials of a new anti-viral drug used in China will be imported in the coming days to be manufactured domestically.Ali Razazan, in charge of the distribution of coronavirus drugs at Iran’s Food and Drug Administration, said an antiviral drug, manufactured and used in China, has been successful in treating COVID-19 patients. The official didn’t disclose the drug’s name.He told IRNA the raw materials have arrived in the country and are currently being cleared by Customs. He added that the medicine can be mass-produced in the country within two days.

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  More Chinese provinces cleared of COVID-19 cases

  CHONGQING, March 15 (Xinhua) - Southwest Chinas Chongqing municipality on Sunday became the latest in a crop of provincial-level regions that have reduced the number of COVID-19 patients to zero.A staff member of a hot pot restaurant delivers takeout food in southwest Chinas Chongqing Municipality, March 13, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)After recovery, the last COVID-19 patient in Chongqing, a 52-year-old man, was discharged from a hospital in Changshou District around 11 a.m., according to the municipalitys health commission.Chongqing has registered a total of 576 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, including six deaths. It has not reported any new infections for 19 consecutive days.On Saturday afternoon, central Chinas Hunan Province also saw its last COVID-19 patient discharged from hospital.The female patient surnamed Liu received a bouquet and took a group photo with doctors and nurses after walking out of a hospital in Changsha, capital of Hunan.Both Chongqing and Hunan neighbor the hardest-hit province of Hubei and have faced arduous tasks of preventing a widespread transmission in local communities.According to initial counting by Xinhua, 11 provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland are clear of the novel coronavirus infections after their last COVID-19 patients had been discharged.They include Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shanxi, Yunnan, Fujian, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Anhui, apart from the latest additions of Hunan and Chongqing.