The WHO has warned of a further 500,000 COVID-19 deaths between now and February as countries brace for a winter spike. Follow Newsweek's liveblog for all the latest.
An easy-to-administer Covid-19 pill, scientifically known as PF-07321332, can be used in combination with protease inhibitors and will cut the risk of both hospitalization or death by 89% percent in high-risk adults who are infected.
Pfizer said there were six hospitalizations and zero deaths out of the 607 participants who took the cocktail within five days of symptoms - compared with 41 hospitalizations and 10 deaths out of the 612 people who received a placebo. The medication is believed to work by inhibiting an enzyme the virus requires to replicate in human cells. It is part of a major trial designed to find easy medication to prevent serious COVID-related disease, and follows the breakthrough and authorization of a similar pill - molnupiravir - developed by Merck.An investigation is ongoing into the mass contamination of millions of vaccine doses at a Johnson & Johnson manufacturing facility in Maryland.
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