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Police arrest 14 in Mumbai, Hyderabad for black-marketing covid drug

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₹30,000 a dose, compared with the maximum retail price of ₹5,400 MUMBAI : Indian police have arrested 14 people on suspicion of selling locally made doses of Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir at five times the maximum retail price as a surge of novel coronavirus cases boosts demand for the antiviral drug.Remdesivir, which has been shown to trim hospital recovery times in a US clinical trial, has been cleared by several countries as a treatment against the disease that has killed more than half a million people globally.Gilead Sciences , which owns the patent to the drug, has licensed it to six Indian drugmakers, allowing them to produce generic versions.

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