India Remdesivir Supplies: 'Peculiar' Situation, Flip Flops And Bangladesh Touch

There's an action-packed run up to remdesivir supply plans in India replete with politics, with one state initially veering towards sourcing the potential COVID-19 treatment from Bangladesh, while pricing debate rumbles on. Indian licensees are now believed to have inched close to regulatory approval.  

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There’s heightened drama in India around remdesivir, Gilead Sciences Inc.’s investigational antiviral currently in the global spotlight as a potential treatment for COVID-19.

While the US firm recently sealed non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreements with five generic firms in India and Pakistan to manufacture remdesivir for distribution in 127 countries, what set the cat among the pigeons was an announcement by a minister in the Indian state of Maharashtra of plans to potentially procure the drug from a firm in Bangladesh

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