Britain to start rolling out Pfizer Covid pill next month

Britain will start rolling out Pfizer’s Covid-19 pill to vulnerable people next month.

The health ministry said on Friday that it was targeting the treatment of people with compromised immune systems for whom the vaccine can be less effective.

The health ministry said that Pfizer’s antiviral treatment Paxlovid, a combination of Pfizer’s pill with an older antiviral ritonavir, will be made available to thousands of people from Feb10.

It is the second antiviral being rolled out in Britain after molnupiravir, a pill made by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics which is being deployed to patients through the Panoramic trial. TRT World