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BEIJING: Beijing plans to distribute Pfizer's Covid-19 treatment drug Paxlovid to community health centers in a bid to help treatment of key populations as the city's peak caseload approaches, the Global Times learned from an online training session for doctors and nursing staff about how to direct patients to use the drug on Monday.
"In accordance with the unified deployment, the anti-viral drug Nematavir/Ritonavir tablets (Paxlovid) will be distributed to all community health centers, and community doctors will guide Covid-19 patients in their areas to take anti-viral treatment," reads a document from the Beijing Municipal Health Commission obtained by the Global Times on Monday.
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