The Minister of Health yesterday said that some private companies may have the capacity to produce Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill.
Dr Frank Anthony made this disclosure in response to questions posed by Stabroek News during his daily COVID-19 update. Pfizer Inc earlier this week announced that it would allow generic manufacturers to supply its COVID-19 pill to low income countries through licensing agreements.
This newspaper inquired whether the local health authorities would be interested in producing and supplying the pill here. To this end Anthony noted that Pfizer has signed an agreement with the World Health Organization’s patent production office where they are allowing use of the technology to enable other countries to manufacture the pill.