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Thirty-five generic drug manufacturers including a Vietnamese firm will make a more affordable version of Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill for the world’s poorer nations, in licensing deals announced Thursday. The global Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), a U.N.-backed organization, signed agreements with three dozen manufacturers to produce the oral Covid-19 treatment nirmatrelvir …

Around 81 percent of parents of primary school students in HCMC want Covid-19 vaccination for their children, as do 60.5 percent of parents of kindergartners. Trinh Duy Trong, head of the political ideology division at the city Department of Education and Training, announced the statistics on Thursday, saying authorities would …