Canada is sending as many as 25,000 vials of the antiviral remdesivir and up to 350 ventilators from its National Emergency Strategic Stockpile to help respond to the critical COVID-19 situation in India.
A plane equipped with the remdesivir vials and 50 ventilators that were ready for shipment left a Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ont. on Wednesday bound for India, where almost 4,000 people died from COVID-19 in the space of a day.
The 25,000 vials of remdesivir, used to treat patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms, is equivalent to more than 4,000 courses of treatment.
