Shionogi’s Covid-19 Pill Ready to Move to Final Trial Phase

  • Antiviral pill found to reduce viral load for infected
  • Drugmaker’s antiviral pill would compete with Pfizer treatment

Shionogi's Covid-19 pill.

Source: Shionogi & Co. 

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Japanese drugmaker Shionogi & Co. said its antiviral pill for Covid-19 is ready to move to the third and final stage of development.

“We expect it to be an effective treatment,” Chief Executive Officer Isao Teshirogi said in a briefing in Tokyo on Monday on the state of clinical trials that are generally required to seek approval.