Purpose: The global effort to combat COVID-19 rapidly produced a shortlist of approved drugs with anti-viral activities for clinical repurposing. However, the jump to clinical testing was lethal in so
Repurposing of antivirals is an attractive therapeutic option for the treatment of COVID-19. Main protease (Mpro), also called 3 C-like protease (3CLpro) is a key protease of SARS-CoV-2 involved in vi