NEW DELHI: India’s largest whole pharmaceutical market at Bhagirath Place in Delhi will remain shut till Thursday after at least 12 cases of the novel coronavirus infection were confirmed among traders there. "There are around 12 cases found in the market.
Five cases were found in the market in the two days ago, but before that also, one or two cases continued to be confirmed since the first two cases were found around May 22.
So we decided to shut down the market till June 4," Delhi Drug Traders Association general secretary Ashish Grover told Mint.
The market is situated in Bhagirath Palace in the Chandni Chowk area with almost 600 wholesale drug shops. According to Grover, the market supplies drugs to a number of states in north India