Health Minister Shigeyuki Goto said on January 28 that the Japanese government will receive 50,000 courses of MSD’s oral COVID-19 pill Lagevrio (molnupiravir) the same day, moving up a portion of the drug’s supply planned for late February. Lagevrio won…
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