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Medicine shortage fears as India limits exports amid spreading coronavirus outbreak


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Medicine shortage fears as India limits exports amid spreading coronavirus outbreak

The world's main supplier of generic drugs restricts the export of 26 pharmaceutical ingredients and the medicines made from them, including paracetamol, as the coronavirus outbreak plays havoc with supply chains. read more...


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