March 28, 2020, The Liberacy:- Gilead, the American biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Foster City, California that researches, develops, and commercializes drugs, is much in highlight due to its production of Remdesivir, the drug most effective till now to cure the Novel Coronavirus.
In India, Gilead has tied up with Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd for the production and selling of the “Remdesivir” investigational drug.
Remdesivir has a recovery rate of 31%. The study was conducted by a US institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).
Jubilant has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Gilead for the transfer of information and production of the drug, after the proper testing and permission by the State authority. Jubilant will be a partner of Gilead for the production of the drug, with other 127 companies of various countries.
Remdesivir has been said to have shown various similarities to that of the building block of RNA, of the Coronavirus’ material. Due to this property, it stops the virus to replicate the RNA.
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Jubilant Life Sciences’ subsidiary Jubilant Generics Ltd has a plant in Nanjangud of Mysuru District. This is the same plant where one Covid19 infected person (P52) was identified, who supposedly infected other 73 people, unknowingly, worked as a carrier of the virus, “Super Spreader.”
After this Nanjangud of Mysuru District was declared as a cluster.
The Karnataka health department was successful in tracing the people infected by P52, but they were not able to identify how P52 got infected.
Even, an investigation was conducted under the supervision of an IAS officer. The report submitted was incomplete and remarks were made, “When we do not exactly know how the disease came to India, what is the point in spending hours on the Nanjangud cluster? The aim should be on how to control the spread of disease and not conduct a probe on the actual source,”
Gilead biopharmaceuticals have a big claim on the Remdesivir drug. Even many other countries have an eye digging into the claims by the company.
Israel has also claimed to have been successful in developing a drug against Coronavirus.
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