GENEVA: US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) announced a deal to make its prospective antiviral Covid-19 pill available more cheaply in the world's least-wealthy countries.

Pfizer will sublicense production of its promising Paxlovid pill to generic drug manufacturers for supply in 95 low- and middle-income nations covering around 53 percent (around 3.8 billion) of the world's population.

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