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AFRICA – The COVID Treatment Quick Start Consortium has announced that the governments of Zambia, Laos, Malawi and Rwanda have received shipments of PAXLOVID (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir), Pfizer’s COVID-19 oral treatment. Partners…
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USA —Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave strong support for full approval of Pfizer’s oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid, for adults at high risk of severe disease…
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NETHERLANDS — Merck is appealing the EMA’s rejection of its Covid-19 pill, Lagevrio, which serves as an alternative to Pfizer’s Paxlovid. The EMA stated that they couldn’t conclude that Lagevrio…
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AFRICA – European Union-funded, WHO-led two-year project has risen the number of COVID-19 vaccination in many vulnerable African communities. At the start of 2022, the COVID-19 vaccination rate was less…
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USA—IQVIA’s latest report on the biopharmaceutical industry shows that it has rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic and is returning to pre-pandemic levels of investment, pipeline activity, and launch of novel…
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NETHERLANDS — Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics’ COVID-19 pill Lagevrio has been recommended against approval by a key committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The committee concluded that a clinical…
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AUSTRALIA — University of Sydney scientists have discovered a protein in the lung that blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection and forms a natural protective barrier in the human body. The leucine-rich repeat-containing…
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NIGERIA – Nigeria, with the support of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has surpassed the milestone of fully vaccinating 30 per cent of its total population. Nigeria has maintained a sustained…
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USA — Evusheld, a preventative monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, has lost its emergency use authorization in the United States because it is unlikely to be effective against the coronavirus…
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SIERRA LEONE – Government of Sierra Leone has received vehicles including motorbikes and computers worth over US$2.8 million from the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership, (CoVDP), for vaccine deployment. CoVDP is…
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