Bengaluru: The State Government has issued notices to Cipla Ltd. and Jubilant Ltd., two pharmaceutical companies producing Remdesivir, for their failure to supply the quantum allocated to Karnataka. The notice has been issued by Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, N. Manjunath Prasad.
The notice stated that the State Government, through the State Executive Committee, has been taking all possible measures to provide effective treatment to COVID-infected persons. As such, it had directed Jubilant Life Sciences Limited — that has a factory in Nanjangud — to supply a quantity of 32,000 Remdesivir vials to the Government by May 9. But despite the Government order, Jubilant had supplied only 17,601 vials as on May 8, thereby failing to supply the requisite quantity as directed by the Government.
