The UK becomes the first country to grant a marketing authorization for the oral treatment which could help cut hospitalizations and deaths by half.
The UK has become the first country in the world to grant marketing authorization to MSD's molnupiravir, the first oral therapy for COVID-19, to be sold as Lagevrio.
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