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Reuters exclusively reports WHO-led program aims to buy antiviral COVID-19 pills for $10

Reuters exclusively reported that a World Health Organization-led program to ensure poorer countries get fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments aims to secure antiviral drugs for patients with mild symptoms for as little as $10 per course. Merck & Co’s experimental pill molnupiravir is likely to be one of the drugs, and other drugs to treat mild patients are being developed. According to a draft document seen by Reuters, which outlines the goals of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) until September next year, the program wants to deliver about 1 billion COVID-19 tests to poorer nations and procure drugs to treat up to 120 million patients globally, out of about 200 million new cases it estimates in the next 12 months.

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