Hyderabad-based Zenara Pharma has received Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) approval to manufacture and market a generic version of Pfizer’s COVID drug Paxlovid.
Granted under the emergency authorisation route, the CDSCO approval is for manufacturing and marketing Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir tablets in a combi pack as a treatment option for patients with mild to moderate symptoms of Covid-19. The product will be sold under the brand name Paxzen and being manufactured at the company’s USFDA approved facility in Hyderabad, Zenara said on Thursday.
“We have brought this product to the market in record time and this is one of the first approvals of this product in India,” co-founder and MD Jagadeesh Babu Rangisetty said. We believe Paxzen is an extremely effective treatment option against COVID-19 and, at the same time, is a very complex product to develop and manufacture
