President-elect Suk-Yeol Yoon’s transition committee is pursuing the manufacture of a generic version of the oral COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid.

The government plans to ask Pfizer whether it would be possible to produce generic copies of Paxlovid in exchange for royalties.

At a press conference of the transition team that was held in Samcheong-dong Seoul on the 22nd, transition committee chair Cheol-Soo Ahn said, “Although it is unprecedented, there is a need to review the possibility of domestically manufacturing generic COVID-19 pills by making a deal with pharmaceutical companies for their patents in exchange for a royalty."

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