Covid-19 man­u­fac­tur­ing roundup: Smug­gled remde­sivir seized en route to Mex­i­co; As Sput­nik awaits WHO ap­proval, a Russ­ian plant rais­es con­cerns

Unau­tho­rized ver­sions of the Covid-19 drug remde­sivir bound for dis­tri­b­u­tion in Mex­i­co were seized by US fed­er­al au­thor­i­ties, The Wall Street Jour­nal re­port­ed.

The drug, which is man­u­fac­tured by Gilead, has been coun­ter­feit­ed and is ar­riv­ing in the US on planes from Bangladesh and In­dia for pa­tients will­ing to pay ex­or­bi­tant ask­ing prices. US Cus­toms and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion has cap­tured more than 100 ship­ments, sources told the Jour­nal.

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