Sales Of Many Other Antiviral Drugs Fall

Medicine sales have fallen in the country amid the Covid-19 pandemic as the lockdown measures seem to have helped significantly reduce the incidence of other infectious diseases.

After early panic buying in March, pharmacies are now left with large stock of drugs with few takers, industry insiders said.

Sales of anti-infectives have fallen 34% month on month so far in April while sales of respiratory drugs (excluding asthma products) have dropped 20% and those of painkillers fell 27%, data from All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) shows