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COVID Wave Drives Chinese Consumers to Indian Generics

by Cobus van Staden
TRANSLATION: Thousands of dollars for Indian-made generic COVID medications sold out? Be careful!

As the BF7 Omicron variant pushes China’s public health care system to its limits, the country is running out of antiviral medications like Pfizer’s Paxlovid.

These shortages seem to be driving people to the black market, with consumers competing to order generic versions of the drug, many from India, that haven’t been approved in China.

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