Friday - April 24, 2020 Treatment of COVID-19: Bayer to donate one million tablets of chloroquine for use in Italy Added by AIFA along with other drugs to the list of medicines for off-label use against COVID-19 download Patients on beds at an emergency structure at the Brescia hospital, Italy. Leverkusen, April 24, 2020 – Based on a protocol signed with the AIFA (Italian Medicines Agency), Bayer will donate approximately one million chloroquine tablets for COVID-19 treatment in Italy. AIFA’s Technical-Scientific Commission added chloroquine, along with other drugs, to the list of medicines for so-called off-label use outside of the established indications to treat patients with COVID-19 on March 13, 2020. In addition, chloroquine was officially included in the so-called Vademecum for the treatment of people affected by the COVID-19 disease, 2.0 version, released by the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit) on March 13, 2020. “In these difficult times, Bayer is co...