Shanghai's Drug Makers, Pharmacies Go All Out to Ensure Medicine Supply as Covid Cases Spiral - Yicai Global

(Yicai Global) Dec. 20 -- Shanghai’s pharmaceutical firms are hiking output of the drugs utilized to forestall and dainty the caller coronavirus and pharmacies are stockpiling to guarantee capable proviso arsenic Covid-19 cases surge amid an easing of pandemic prevention measures successful the country.

Demand for fever-reducing and cough medicines arsenic good arsenic painkillers person exploded successful the past week, Shanghai Pharmaceutical Holding said connected its WeChat relationship connected Dec. 17. Sales of its ibuprofen capsules and different products person accrued noticeably.

As a result, since aboriginal this period Shanghai Pharmaceuticals has been hiking output of the medicines utilized to dainty Covid-19, 1 of which has adjacent doubled successful capacity, and is actively sourcing earthy materials and packaging materials.

Henan Genuine Biotech has much than quadrupled the regular output of its Azvudine tablet, which was archetypal developed to dainty HIV-infected patients and has since been approved to dainty Covid-19, to 300,000 bottles a day, a institution insider told Yicai Global.

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group, which is 1 of the income agents of the oral antiviral pill, is linking arms with China National Pharmaceutical Group and different drugmakers to leverage their income channels and grow their income web coverage, a idiosyncratic adjacent to Fosun Pharma told Yicai Global.

Azvudine is disposable for bulk acquisition by hospitals and clinics successful each 31 provincial-level regions, including those astatine the grassroot level, helium added.

Fosun Pharma is besides expanding accumulation of Covid-19 antigen tests. "At present, we tin nutrient the reagents needed to trial six cardinal radical a time and tin grow capableness quickly, if necessary," helium said.

Johnson & Johnson’s factories are moving astatine afloat capableness and the institution is prioritizing proviso to countries successful its Asia-Pacific proviso concatenation network, a idiosyncratic connected to the US pharma giant’s China limb said. The New Jersey-based company’s pain-relieving and fever-reducing drugs Motrin and Tylenol are successful large demand.

Shanghai No.1 Pharmacy is stocking up connected therapies by bringing successful banal from different places and buying from suppliers without adding preconditions, the concatenation cause store told Yicai Global.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Kim Taylor