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On April 24, News Front Georgia, a pro-Kremlin news site popular in the former Soviet states, published a Georgian language article headlined: Anti-corona medication of an American firm linked to ‘Lugar Lab’ turns out to be useless."A screenshot of the News Front Georgia official Facebook pageThe report is false.News Front claimed the results in the first clinical trial of the U.S.-developed antiviral drug remdesivir showed it to be ineffective against COVID-19. It also linked the medication with the debunked and recycled anti-U.S. conspiracy theory about the Lugar Lab in Georgia.Remdesivir is an experimental antiviral medication created by the U.S. biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences. It was developed as an anti-Ebola drug which
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