“The Covid-19 commissioner, headed by General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, was mandated by the Ministry of Health to acquire a quantity equal to 50,000 treatment cycles of oral antiviral drugs per covid for each type of molnupiravir and paxlovid”, that is the anti-covid pills from Merck and Pfizer.
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This was announced by the press office of the commissioner, underlining that “the procedures for the stipulation of contracts and / or purchases will be started in order to allow their effective availability as soon as the companies will be able to supply them”.
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At the same time, Ema, the European Medicines Agency, announced that starting from November 19 it will offer assistance to Member States that want to use Pfizer’s pill against Covid in an emergency before Ema’s authorization. This was announced by Marco Cavaleri, head of vaccination strategy.