A drug once hailed as Japan’s biggest contribution in the global fight against COVID-19 suffered another setback on Friday, as Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said it was halting enrollment in a clinical trial of the pill, Avigan.
The emergence of the omicron variant of coronavirus, which usually causes milder infections, made it tough to determine the drug’s effectiveness in preventing severe symptoms, the company said in a statement.
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