Chinese state-owned enterprise China Meheco Group Co. Ltd. has signed a deal with Pfizer Inc. to be its mainland China partner for the commercialization of the COVID-19 pill Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir), which won conditional approval from China’s NMPA earlier this year.
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Disagreement over offsets for an additional $15.6 billion in COVID-19 funding forced the supplemental pandemic funds recently requested by the White House to be cut from the fiscal 2022 spending bill, so the U.S. House would have the votes to pass the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package late March 9.
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