Hetero Announces Interim Clinical Results from Phase III Clinical Trials of Molnupiravir conducted in India

~ Phase 3 Trial Demonstrates Statistically Significant fewer hospital admissions, Faster Time to Clinical Improvement and early negative SARS CoV-2 RT PCR with Molnupiravir Treatment in Mild COVID 19 Patients Compared to Standard of Care alone~ ~ Hetero has approached the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) to seek Emergency Use Authorization for Molnupiravir in India ~ India, Hyderabad, 9 th July 2021: Hetero, a globally renowned vertically integrated pharmaceutical organization, today announced the interim clinical results from Phase III Clinical trials of Molnupiravir in mild Covid-19 patients conducted across multiple COVID-19 dedicated hospital sites across India. In April this year, Hetero had entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with MSD (tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., USA (NYSE: MRK), to manufacture and supply Molnupiravir in India and over 100 low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Molnupiravir is an investigational, orally administered form of a potent ribonucleoside analog, being developed globally by MSD, that inhibits the replication of multiple RNA viruses including SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19 with demonstrated activity against SARS-CoV-2 in human airway epithelial cell cultures and potential to completely eliminate SARS CoV-2 from the body within 5 days. Hetero had commenced a phase-III, comparative, randomized, multicenter clinical trial on mild Covid-19 patients (N=1218). These clinical trials were aimed at evaluating the efficacy and safety of Molnupiravir plus standard of care (test arm) versus standard of care alone (control