Introduction
corona virus disease-19, cardiotoxic, infections, Malaria
PARASITIC INFECTION, MALARIA, INFECTIONS
Malaria is the most important parasitic infection affecting man and may coexist with other infections including HIV. Malaria is a close differential diagnosis of corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) in this current pandemic. Halofantrine is a synthetic phenanthrene-methanol antimalarial which is chemically related to quinine and mefloquine. Although halofantrine, a potentially cardiotoxic drug is an efficacious antimalarial for the treatment of multi-drug resistant 