{"id":184026,"date":"2022-07-18T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=184026"},"modified":"2022-07-18T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:05:10","slug":"indonesia-approves-pfizers-paxlovid-pill-to-combat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=184026","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia approves Pfizer&#8217;s Paxlovid pill to combat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JAKARTA, July 18 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Indonesia&#8217;s Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has granted an emergency use authorisation of Pfizer&#8217;s antiviral drug, Paxlovid, to treat eligible COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approved film-coated Paxlovid contains 150 mg of nirmatrelvir co-packaged with 100 mg ritonavir, according to its head, Penny Kusumastuti Lukito.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recommended dose is 300 mg nirmatrelvir, equivalent to two 150 mg tablets, with a tablet of 100 mg ritonavir, taken twice a day for five days, she said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, BPOM granted permits for two antiviral drugs, namely Favipiravir and Remdesivir in 2020, monoclonal antibody Regdanvimab (2021), and Molnupiravir (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world&#8217;s fourth most populous country recorded 3,540 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, down from Saturday&#8217;s 4,329 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daily cases rose to over 3,000 this month because of the Omicron variant, where most of the new cases were in Greater Jakarta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Indonesia&#8217;s booster shot coverage of only 25 per cent of the targeted 208 million people, having received their third dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar JAKARTA, July 18 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Indonesia&#8217;s Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has granted an emergency use authorisation of Pfizer&#8217;s antiviral drug, Paxlovid, to treat eligible COVID-19 patients. The approved film-coated Paxlovid contains 150 mg of nirmatrelvir co-packaged with 100 mg ritonavir, according to its head, Penny Kusumastuti Lukito. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":184027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184028,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184026\/revisions\/184028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}