First Czech patient treated by remdesivir to be released home

The General Teaching Hospital (VFN) in Prague will this afternoon release to home care the man who has been the first patient with COVID 19 treated by the remdesivir experimental drug in Czechia, VFN spokeswoman Martina Vorackova said. The 53-year-old taxi driver was hospitalised with a severe course of the COVID-19 disease on March 10. He received remdesivir intravenously for ten days at the end of March and the beginning of April.