China is in talks with Pfizer Inc to secure a licence that will allow domestic drugmakers to manufacture and distribute a generic version of the U.S. firm's COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid in China, three sources told Reuters.
, a developer of a potential mRNA COVID vaccine, are among those that attended the meeting, the first source said.
For a generic drug to be deemed equivalent to a branded medicine, such tests are required to make sure they work the same way in the body. Following the pandemic period, sales to low-income countries will remain royalty free, lower-middle-income countries and upper-middle-income countries will be subject to a 5% royalty for sales to the public sector and a 10% royalty for sales to the private sector, MPP said at that time.
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