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Shionogi Sales Sag 9.3% in April-September on COVID-19, Price Cuts
Shionogi said on October 30 that its April-September revenue shriveled 9.3% from a year earlier to 148.5 billion yen as it reels from hospitals being avoided amid the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the drug price revision in April. Japan…
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