The Pfizer laboratory announced in a statement Thursday that the US government had ordered 10 million treatments of its anti-Covid pill for $ 5.29 billion, subject to the drug receiving the green light from health authorities.
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The group, which already markets a vaccine against the virus in collaboration with BioNTech, filed at the beginning of the week with the American Medicines Agency (FDA) an emergency authorization request for this highly anticipated treatment because it can easily be taken at home in the first few days after the onset of symptoms in case of infection.