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European Industry Played Key Role In Mitigating COVID-19

Detailed Modelling And Industry Co-ordination Were Central To Managing Pandemic

 
• By Dave Wallace

In the first part of an exclusive two-part interview, James Burt – Accord’s executive vice-president for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa – talks to Generics Bulletin about the key actions taken by the generics industry to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic, and the changed landscape that the off-patent arena can expect to see in future.

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Accord’s James Burt details the contributions made by the European generics industry to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic • Source: Accord

The first half of 2020 has been defined by the outbreak of COVID-19. And with the coronavirus pandemic likely to continue to cast a long shadow, uncertainties within the off-patent industry and medicines sector as a whole persist.

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