Prognosis
Germany Buys Pfizer’s Covid Pill Amid Surging Omicron Cases
- Deliveries from order of 1 million packs to start in January
- Number of Omicron cases jumped 43% to 10,443 on Tuesday
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Germany is buying 1 million packs of Pfizer Inc.’s newly approved pill to treat Covid-19, securing supplies as infections from the fast-spreading omicron variant rise rapidly.
The Paxlovid drug is “extremely promising” because it can help people who risk falling seriously ill, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told German news agency DPA. The country’s health authorities reported a total of 10,443 omicron cases as of Tuesday, a 43% jump from the previous day.