Corona Crisis: DRDO develops anti-Covid drug, 2-Deoxy-D-glucose

In the midst of the dreaded crisis of the Corona epidemic, the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has prepared a drug which has brought a new ray of hope for India. This drug is currently named 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG). It has been prepared in association with DRDO's Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) and Hyderabad Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB).