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Coronavirus Update: Canadian Evusheld Supply Deal, Nuvaxovid EU Shipments

Plus, US Limits On Xevudy Use

 
• By Scrip Team

The US places certain limits on the use of GSK's Xevudy, while Canada signs a supply deal for another antibody therapy, AstraZeneca's Evusheld. Meanwhile, Novavax starts EU shipments of its vaccine and the UK funds ConserV's pan-coronavirus vaccine.  

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AZ's antibody cocktail set for distribution in Canada if approved • Source: Alamy

The US Food and Drug Administration has moved to limit the use of GlaxoSmithKline plc/Vir Biotechnology, Inc.’s Xevudy (sotrovimab) in places where SARS-CoV-2 variants resistant to the antibody are spreading.

In an updated fact sheet issued 23 February, the agency said the drug “is not authorized for treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in geographic regions where infection is likely to have been caused by a non-susceptible SARS-CoV-2 variant based on available

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