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Pfizer starts Testing Covid Prevention Pill

Pfizer announced today it has started a mid-to-late-stage study testing its oral antiviral drug for the prevention of Covid-19 infection among those who have been exposed to the virus, news wires reported. The company and its rivals, such as US-based Merck and Swiss Roche, have been racing to develop the first antiviral pill for Covid-19.

Faster testing will help efforts to relax lockdown measures, says Mitsotakis during visit to EKEA

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday visited the National Center for Blood Donation (EKEA) which was recently equipped with molecular diagnostic systems for Covid-19.

The three cobas 8800 systems, made by Swiss diagnostics maker Roche, can test patients about 10 times faster than the company's previous test for the coronavirus.