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The European Medicines Agency conditionally approves the use of the Pfizer anti-COVID-19 oral drug Paxlovid for high-risk adult patients.
2022-01-27

The Medicines Patent Pool signs an agreement with 27 pharmaceutical companies in 11 countries to produce both raw ingredients and finished products of Merck & Co.'s Molnupiravir COVID-19 drug, which will be used in 105 low- and middle-income developing countries.
2022-01-20

Katherine enters a lockdown after the Northern Territory records its first locally-transmitted infection since the beginning of the pandemic. In Greater Darwin, unvaccinated residents are told to lockdown while fully vaccinated residents are exempt with the exception of being required to wear a mask.
2021-11-5

Merck & Co. signs a licensing agreement with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool that will allow more companies to manufacture generic versions of its experimental oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment molnupiravir with a royalty-free license that will apply to 105 low- and middle-income countries.
2021-10-27

The Subject Expert Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation will allow the Serum Institute of India to conduct trials of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine in children between the ages of 7 and 11 years.
2021-09-28

South Africa returns to adjusted alert level 3, which means that inter-provincial travel can resume, alcohol sales bans are lifted, non-essential businesses can reopen, and gatherings of 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors are allowed. Additionally, schools can reopen from 26 July 2021.
2021-07-25

India reports a record 1,761 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 180,530.
2021-04-20

Alberta reports a record 1,155 new cases in the last 24 hours. In addition, the number of active cases in the province reaches 10,655, the highest number since the pandemic began in March.
2020-11-20

Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf tested positive for COVID-19.
2020-10-28

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that the current Alert Level settings will be extended for another 12 days.
2020-08-14