Switzerland buys Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid

May 20, 2022 8:56 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment pill Paxlovid is seen in boxes, at Misericordia hospital in Grosseto, Italy, February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Switzerland signed a contract to buy Pfizer's anti-viral drug Paxlovid to treat Covid-19, it said on Friday.

The European country said it had signed a contract to buy 12,000 packages and first treatments for certain at-risk patients would start this month.

(Reporting by Kirsti Knolle, Editing by Miranda Murray)



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