Japan’s health ministry on Tuesday granted fast-track approval to Shionogi & Co.’s COVID-19 tablet Xocova, making it the country’s first domestically produced oral medicine against the coronavirus. The medicine for COVID-19 patients aged 12 or older with mild symptoms also became the first drug authorized under the new emergency approval […]
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Shionogi COVID-19 pill Xocova wins emergency approval in Japan
Shionogi & Co.’s experimental COVID-19 treatment Xocova won emergency approval in Japan, becoming the third oral treatment available in the country and the first to be developed locally. Japan’s health ministry authorized the emergency use of the therapy for COVID-19 patients aged 12 years and older after a panel of […]