Hetero, Cipla's Remdesivirs Hit India Market, 'Surplus' Envisaged By August

Prices Well Below $100/vial

Gilead licensees Hetero and Cipla introduce remdesivir, the antiviral seen as a potential treatment for COVID-19, in India. Pricing plans will be closely watched and supplies in the country are expected to stabilize soon, possibly turning to a surplus situation in several months.

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There has been a flurry of activity around investigational COVID-19 treatments in India over the past weekend.

While Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. became the first Indian firm to get the go-ahead for its version of the oral antiviral favipiravir, news of much-anticipated regulatory clearances for local licensees of Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir, the injectable antiviral in the global spotlight, also trickled in soon after

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