In the first stage, Air Polonia wants to achieve a load factor - a profit benchmark showing the percentage of paying passengers per seat flown -- of above 40 percent on foreign flights and 70 percent on domestic routes.

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Roche, which already sells pegylated interferon (Pegasys) and ribavirin (Copegus), announced in May that in a small early-stage trial its polymerase inhibitor was effective in significantly reducing the viral load.

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