As War Rages On, Kyiv Drugmaker Inks Deal for Pfizer Covid Pill

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As the war in Ukraine rages around them, employees at Kyiv-based Darnitsa, the country’s largest drugmaker, are working around the clock to produce antibiotics, painkillers, heart medications and other critical products their fellow citizens desperately need. Now they’re taking on an additional challenge: making their own version of Pfizer Inc.’s promising Covid-19 pill.

On March 18, the company signed a deal to produce Paxlovid amid the chaos of war in a country that’s already lost 110,000 lives to Covid.

“As long as we can operate, we will operate,” ...