To be fair you're both right, although going on what I've read it seems medical opinion is currently leaning in the direction of higher death rates, the evidence is, however, inconclusive, that's probably why the NHS started trials as they wanted to answer that question for themselves.
Which is why I referred to the huge amount of even basic things that are not known about this disease. It's possible that hydrochloroquine is beneficial in some cases and detrimental in others. There's far too much that isn't know about this disease with outcomes varying from not even any symptoms at all to death even with the best modern medical care and various symptoms affecting skin, kidneys, liver, heart, sense of smell, blood, brain and lungs. But different symptoms and different body parts affected in different patients. For no known reasons.
I've not read the details of the trails cited that mention more deaths so I'm just going to take people at their word, however I'd also say what you linked to above isn't exactly conclusive either, for example the one you linked to directly was only conducted on 100 patients (and if you buy into the China bad rhetoric there's also that), and all the reference material (maybe different for you) is basically papers talking about that trail of 100 people and about the potential efficacy and dangers of chloroquine, the first two i read make it pretty clear the margin between the therapeutic and toxic dose is narrow.
There were other initial trials and feedback from doctors who were conducting informal trials as they tried to find any treatment. It wasn't conclusive and I never claimed it was. Unlike the ludicrously biased people who are devout in their faith that everything Trump approves of must be wrong and evil because he's the AntiChrist or something and that's conclusive.
It's a stupid idea for the leader of a country to be openly in favour of an experimental treatment with extremely limited evidence for a disease that nobody understands. But not as stupid as some ludicrously biased people are making out, nor as greedy as some ludicrously biased people are making out (which doesn't make any sense at all since the drug is off patent and there's hardly any profit in it and Indian companys have the market sewn up already).