Still, religious gatherings have continued and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have themselves addressed election campaigns attended by tens of thousands of people, many without masks and hardly any following social distancing.
In addition to the Remdesivir ban"till the situation improves", the health ministry said that manufacturers had been asked to step up supplies. The World Health Organization in November issued a conditional recommendation against the use of Remdesivir in hospitalised patients, saying there was no evidence that the drug improved survival and other outcomes.India leads the world in the daily average number of new infections reported in more than two weeks, accounting for one in every six infections reported globally each day.
"Pharmacists and stockists might be doing black marketing and that needs to be checked," Rajesh Tope, health minister of India's hardest-hit Maharashtra state, told reporters this week.
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