China's 1st Covid antibody therapy can also tackle Omicron: Report
Beijing: China has granted emergency approval to its first-ever antibody cocktail therapy against Covid-19, which has shown to be effective in reducing the risk of hospitalization or death among high-risk Covid-19 patients by 80 per cent, the media reported.
The company in October submitted an application to the National Medical Products Administration and received emergency approval from China's top medicine regulator this week, Global Times reported.
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The combination therapy, co-developed by Tsinghua University, the Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen and Brii Biosciences, headquartered in China and the US, also retains its neutralising activity against the Omicron variant, the report said.
The SARS-CoV-2 therapy BRII-196/BRII-198 has shown excellent safety and protection effects in international multi-centre trials, and is the only antibody drug in the world to have evaluated the efficacy of the treatment of patients with mutant strains and obtained the best results, Zhang Linqi, the professor who leads the research and development of the drug at Tsinghua's School of Medicine, was quoted as saying.
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