Chandrakant Lahariya | FDA approval of Covid pill a sign of hope for the world

The US Food and Drugs Administration approved an oral Covid-19 drug Paxlovid. Molnupiravir, too, received emergency authorisation

Seven held for selling Remdesivir injections at higher cost

The officials said that each vial of the injection was being sold at 30,000 instead of 4,500

CEO of Biophore said all starting materials for making favipiravir are either sourced locally or have been developed in-house for use

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals had launched antiviral drug Favipiravir, under the brand name FabiFlu, last month at a price of Rs 103 per tablet

Remdesivir is expected to be in high demand as one of the only treatments so far shown to alter the course of COVID-19

Gilead, AstraZeneca and several other drugmakers are racing to develop vaccines for COVID-19

This is the second breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19 in India.

Indo-US strategic ties are based on much more than the optics of one drug deal