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Africa CDC says it has signed MOU with Pfizer for Covid pill

Africa's top public health body has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer to receive supplies of the Paxlovid pill to treat Covid-19.

By Anait Miridzhanian, James Macharia Chege and Estelle Shirbon

12 Jul 2022

Source: Reuters.

Source: Reuters.

"We have signed the MOU with Pfizer and we are going to be able to make that particular treatment available to African countries," said Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Source: Reuters

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