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South Africa: South Africa is in talks with Pfizer Inc and Merck & Co to gain access to their COVID-19 treatment pills as the Omron version spreads across the country and cases almost double,
The country wants one of them to potentially produce medical science in South Africa, Nicholas Crisp, deputy director general of South Africa’s health department, said on Wednesday in response to a question from an MP.
“We’re discussing those two and other matters with the manufacturers so that we understand what they’re selling, what it does,” he said.
South Africa has the most confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Africa, with nearly 3 million infections and nearly 90,000 deaths officially attributed to the disease. Omicron’s debut is triggering a fourth wave of infections.
He said that the medicines are being considered by the National List of Essential Medicines Committee for their economic value.
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“We have worked out numbers with our partners in the provinces that we think will be able to use those two drugs,” he said.
Merck and Pfizer are seeking approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of their tablets, which are known as molanupiravir and paxlovid respectively.
South Africa on Wednesday recorded 8,561 infections compared to 4,373 a day earlier, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. ,bloomberg
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