Pfizer signs US$5.3 billion deal to supply COVID-19 antiviral pills to US government

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Pfizer said on Thursday (Nov 18) it had signed a US$5.29 billion deal with the US government to deliver 10 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 antiviral drug, as the country rushes to secure promising oral treatments for the disease. The deal is roughly twice the size of the contract the US govern

Pfizer said on Thursday it had signed a US$5.29 billion deal with the US government to deliver 10 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 antiviral drug, as the country rushes to secure promising oral treatments for the disease.

Pfizer applied for emergency authorisation of the drug, branded as Paxlovid, this week after reporting data showing that it wasThe drugmaker said it would begin deliveries of the treatment as soon as this year if it is authorised by the US Food and Drug Administration. Pfizer has said it expects to manufacture 180,000 treatment courses by the end of next month and at least 50 million courses by the end of 2022.

 

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