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The Pharmaceutical Global Market in 2020 (Key figures LEEM 2021), reached 1203 US $Bn, showing 8% growth compared to 2019 with this global repartition: North America, 46.3%; Europe, 24%; Asia Pacific, 14.5%; China, 8.2%; Latin America, 3.7%; Africa, 1.1%. On the top 3 for main therapeutic markets, there is oncology 14.4%, then secondly anti-diabetic 9.5% and at third auto-immunes diseases 9.2%. Looking for last figures for 10 top therapies (IQVA 2021); as absolute growth we’ll retrieve oncologics (17.2%), immunology (16.5%) and antidiabetics (11.6%). As Covid Pandemia spawned massive scale in emergency, numerous countries have rapidly developed projects to characterize the new virus, developed specific treatments or vaccine, assessed the repositioning of drugs in new indications (1).