The meeting comes in the backdrop of the covid-19 spreading in various major states in India, and pharmaceutical companies scampering to find a drug to repurpose existing drugs towards treatment of the fatal respiratory disease The health ministry will hold a meeting on Friday of top government officials as well as two representatives from the pharmaceutical industry to discuss reforms for the drug regulatory system amid the global search to expedite a cure for covid, four sources in the know told Mint.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of the covid-19 spreading in various major states in India, and pharmaceutical companies scampering to find a drug to repurpose existing drugs like the broad spectrum antiviral favirpiravir and the