COVID-19: Centre to discontinue allocation of Remdesivir to states

COVID-19: Centre to discontinue allocation of Remdesivir to states

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(MENAFN - NewsBytes)India, India news, India latest news, coronavirus, coronavirus news, coronavirus latest news, Government, Indian government, government of India, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Remdesivir, Remdesivir in India, Remdesivir supply in India, Remdesivir demand in India, COVID-19, COVID-19 drug, COVID-19 drugs, COVID-19 in India, COVID-19 situation in India, central allocation of Remdesivir, central allocation of Remdesivir in India, central allocation of Remdesivir stopped, central allocation of Remdesivir halted, Mansukh Mandaviya"> type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com\/news\/india\/covid-19-centre-discontinues-remdesivir-allocation-to-states\/story"},"isPartOf":{"@type":"CreativeWork","name":"NewsBytes","url":"https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com"},"inLanguage":"en","headline":"COVID-19: Centre to discontinue allocation of Remdesivir to states | NewsBytes","description":"The Indian government has decided to stop the central allocation of Remdesivir to states, citing sufficient supply of the antiviral drug being used to treat severe coronavirus patients","keywords":"India, India news, India latest news, coronavirus, coronavirus news, coronavirus latest news, Government, Indian government, government of India, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Remdesivir, Remdesivir in India, Remdesivir supply in India, Remdesivir demand in India, COVID-19, COVID-19 drug, COVID-19 drugs, COVID-19 in India, COVID-19 situation in India, central allocation of Remdesivir, central allocation of Remdesivir in India, central allocation of Remdesivir stopped, central allocation of Remdesivir halted, Mansukh Mandaviya","articleSection":"India News","url":"https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com\/news\/india\/covid-19-centre-discontinues-remdesivir-allocation-to-states\/story","image":["https:\/\/i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com\/images\/l158_5641622283288.jpg","https:\/\/i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com\/images\/158_5641622283288.jpg"],"datePublished":"2021-05-29T16:37:08+0530","dateModified":"2021-05-29T16:37:08+0530","articleBody":"The Indian government has decided to stop the central allocation of Remdesivir to states, citing sufficient supply of the antiviral drug being used to treat severe coronavirus patients. Mansukh Mandaviya, the Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers, made this announcement on Twitter today. He, however, added that central agencies will continue to monitor the availability of the drug across the country. The decision implies that states will now have to procure Remdesivir directly from the manufacturers. Now the country has enough #Remdesivir as the supply is much more than the demand. So we have decided to DISCONTINUE the Central Allocation of Remdesivir to States (sic), Mandaviya tweeted this morning. He said the production of the drug has been scaled up over 10 times. Between April 11 and today, the production of Remdesivir has been upped from 33,000 vials per day to 3,50,000 vials now, the Union Minister revealed. He informed the number of manufacturing plants has been increased from 20 to 60 in a span of one month, amid COVID-19 surge. The government will also set aside 50 lakh vials of the drug for an emergency situation. I have also directed NPPA & CDSCO to continuously monitor the availability of Remdesivir in the country. Government of India has also decided to procure 50 lakh vials of #Remdesivir to maintain it as a strategic stock for the emergency requirement (sic), Mandaviya said. The demand for Remdesivir skyrocketed in India over the past couple of months as a ferocious second wave of infections hit the country. In view of that situation, the government had waived customs duty on Remdesivir and its raw materials and prohibited the exports of the drug. Later in April, the Centre began allocating the drug to states. In a similar move, Centre had said last month that states could buy coronavirus vaccines directly from the manufacturers at pre-declared prices. However, that move met with criticism over the issue of differential pricing. For the unversed, Remdesivir is a patented drug that has been recommended as an investigational therapy to be administered in severe COVID-19 cases. But, several experts have questioned its efficacy. India faced the world's worst coronavirus outbreak over the past couple of months - it reported lakhs of infections and hundreds of deaths each day. Daily cases in the country peaked at 4,14,000 just earlier this month. The situation has since improved - In the past 24 hours, India logged 1.73 lakh new coronavirus cases, marking the lowest surge in 45 days. 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