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Gates Foundation to Fund $120 Million to Increase Oral COVID-19 Drug Distribution to Poor Nations

The Epoch Times

By Lorenz Duchamps

October 20, 2021 Updated: October 20, 2021

 

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in its COVID-19 response, will fund up to $120 million to increase access to an experimental drug for lower-income countries, which will be used in treating COVID-19, the foundation announced on Tuesday.

The funding will support efforts to develop and make generic versions of what could become the first oral antiviral medication for the disease if it wins regulatory approval, it explained in a statement.

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