Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co Inc said Monday it has applied for U.S. emergency use authorisation for its revolutionary drug to treat mild-to-moderate patients of COVID-19, putting it on course to become the first oral antiviral medication for the disease. An authorisation from the U.S. Foo
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