New Delhi: When the world is battling with the pandemic coronavirus, India remained a major support to the world nations with the supply of medicines 100-plus countries over the last two weeks.
A top government official told Hindustan Times that India is supplying nearly 85 million hydroxychloroquine tablets and close to 500 million paracetamol tablets to the 108 countries.
This is in addition to the 1,000 tonnes of paracetamol granules that have been sent to make tablets.
India has already supplied 80 million HCQ tablets to 24 countries through commercial contracts including US, UK, Russia, France, Spain and Netherlands. It has also supplied large quantities of paracetamol to 52 countries including Italy, Sweden and Singapore. In some cases, both HCQ and paracetamol tablets were supplied, as per reports.