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Indonesia approves Merck's COVID-19 pill for emergency use

by Reuters
Friday, 14 January 2022 03:46 GMT

JAKARTA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Indonesia has approved Merck & Co Inc's COVID-19 antiviral pill molnupiravir for emergency use, the country's food and drug agency said in a statement.

A batch of 400,000 pills had arrived in Indonesia, health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said this week. The pill was jointly developed by U.S.-based Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. (Reporting by Stanley Widianto Editing by Ed Davies)

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