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G-7 Countries To Supply Additional 870 M Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines
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Leaders from the G-7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US) announced at the G-7 Summit, held earlier this month (June 2021) in Cornwall, UK, that…

Civica Rx Names New Retail Generics Unit, Catalent as Mfg Partner
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Civica Rx, a non-profit pharmaceutical company providing generic drugs, including drugs in shortage, has announced CivicaScript as the name of its new retail generics operating unit. Additionally, Anthem, a health…

Elanco To Sell Two Mfg Sites to CDMO TriRx Pharmaceuticals
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Elanco Animal Health, the former animal-health business of Eli Lilly and Company and now a stand-alone company, has agreed to sell two manufacturing sites in Shawnee, Kansas, and Speke, UK…

Bayer To Invest $303 M in New Production Plant in Finland
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Bayer is investing EUR 250 million ($303 million) to build a new pharmaceutical plant and concurrently modernize its existing production plant in Turku, Finland. The new production plant will be…

Biden Administration Calls for Action To Improve Pharma Supply Chains
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The Biden Administration has announced a series of actions and recommendations to improve supply-chain resilience in several industries, including pharmaceuticals. In February (February 2021), President Joe Biden issued an executive…

EU Calls for WTO Action To Expand Access for COVID-19 Vaccines
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The European Union (EU) has submitted its proposal seeking the commitment of World Trade Organization (WTO) members for a multilateral trade action plan to expand the production of COVID-19 vaccines…

Merck & Co. in $1.2-Bn Supply Pact with US Gov’t for Oral COVID-19 Drug
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Merck & Co. has entered into a procurement agreement, worth up to $1.2 billion, with the US government for molnupiravir, its investigational oral antiviral agent for treating mild-to-moderate COVID-19. Molnupiravir…

Pharma COVID Roundup: News from Pfizer, Moderna, and Roche
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The latest on COVID-19 vaccines/drugs, manufacturing, and testing from Pfizer, Moderna, Roche, Thermo Fisher, Inovio, Regeneron, the US government, and others. Manufacturing and supply of COVID-19 vaccines and drugs Pfizer/BioNTech,…

Global Pharma Briefs: News from Sanofi, Otsuka, and bluebird bio
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A roundup of news from Canada (Fusion Pharmaceuticals), France (Sanofi), Japan (Otsuka), and the US (bluebird bio). Canada Fusion Pharmaceuticals Partners for New Radiopharma Mfg FacilityFusion Pharmaceuticals, a Hamilton, Ontario,…

Moderna Partners with UNICEF, Lonza, Thermo Fisher for COVID-19 Vaccine
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Moderna, a biopharmaceutical company developing messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, has signed a pact with UNICEF to supply up to 500 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and has…