Germany buys US and Limerick firm's Covid-19 antibody used by Trump 

The biopharmaceutical firm recently announced plans to add more than 400 jobs at its Limerick facility

Germany’s health minister Jens Spahn said the government has bought 200,000 doses of the monoclonal antibody medication from Regeneron. Picture: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

Germany is to purchase 200,000 doses of Regeneron’s Covid-19 antibody treatment used by former US President Donald Trump.

Headquartered in New York, the biopharmaceutical firm has a major operations facility in Limerick and recently announced plans to add more than 400 jobs there in order to maximise capacity at its US facility to produce large quantities of the treatment.