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Access to Anti-Covid Pills to Be Controlled by Government

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health and federal covid-19 czar Hugo López-Gatell said Tuesday, Jan. 18, that, for now at least, the acquisition and administration of the newly approved anti-covid pills will remain in the hands of the government. “Commercial registration authorizations will not, at this time, be granted for their use or administration,” he

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Mexico Gives Emergency Approval of Merck’s Covid-19 Pill

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as confirmed covid-19 cases in Mexico passed the 4-million mark and covid deaths surpassed 300,000, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Jan. 7, announced that the country’s health regulator, the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), had granted emergency authorization for the use of Merck’s covid treatment pill, Molnupiravir.

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