Coronavirus: Drugs
(asked on 14th September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has ordered doses of the covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatment Sotrovimab produced by GSK.
This question was answered on 11th October 2021
The Government has entered into an agreement with GlaxoSmithKline for the procurement of 100,008 doses of sotrovimab.
This procurement is subject to independent approval of sotrovimab by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency who will assess the medicine for safety and efficacy for treatment of COVID-19.