Australia to buy Covid treatment pill; record cases in Victoria
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Merck's experimental Covid-19 treatment pill molnupiravir. Photo: Merck & Co Inc/Handout via REUTERS
Australia will buy 300,000 doses of Merck & Co's experimental antiviral pill, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, as Victoria logged the highest number of daily Covid-19 infections of any state in the country since the pandemic began.