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Chinese drug makers’ shares plunge as Pfizer’s Paxlovid gains market share

Shares of Chinese pharmaceutical companies plunged Tuesday morning on Chinese bourses, continuing a slide that began in the face of competition from Pfizer’s COVID-19 drug Paxlovid earlier this month. Shares of Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical 002603, -8.52%, a traditional-Chinese-medicine producer of COVID-treatment drugs, fell by as much as 9.6%. The company’s share price has fallen 40%
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Shares of Chinese pharmaceutical companies plunged Tuesday morning on Chinese bourses, continuing a slide that began in the face of competition from Pfizer’s COVID-19 drug Paxlovid earlier this month.

Shares of Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical 002603, -8.52%, a traditional-Chinese-medicine producer of COVID-treatment drugs, fell by as much as 9.6%. The company’s share price has fallen 40% from its peak on Dec. 8, when Pfizer’s PFE, +0.37% Covid-19 drug Paxlovid started being widely used in China.

China Meheco Group Co. 600056, -6.41%, the distributor of Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid in China fell by as much as 8.9%, after the company told local media Monday that Paxlovid can only be purchased at hospitals. This limits broader sales of the drug by the company through channels such as e-commerce.

China Meheco signed an agreement to supply Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid in China in mid-December, as the country has pivoted away from its “zero COVID” policy and allowed a massive outbreak to spread across the country over the past several weeks.

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