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- India is a leading player across the globe in the manufacturing of HCQ.
- The Ipca laboratories, Zydus Cadila and Wallace Pharmaceuticals are the top pharma companies in India to produce this.
- Ipca is the top manufacturer of this drug globally.
- Presently, the country’s production capacity is 20 crore tablets every month.
- As much as 70 per cent of all the APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredient) needed by India to manufacture drugs come from China.
- India manufactures 70% of the world's supply of hydroxychloroquine.
- India is the largest exporter of the drug.
- India also needs around 24 million of this tablet per year for the three indications --- malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis.
- At present, India is in the process of supplying HCQ to 55 corona virus-hit countries.
- This anti-malarial drug was held as 'game-changer' in the fight against COVID-19 by the US President.
- The drug is not manufactured in developed nations such as the US because of non-existent malaria.
- The Brazilian PM Jair Bolsonaro likened the supply of HCQ from India to Hanuman bringing the ‘holy medicine’ or Sanjeevani in the ‘Ramayana’.
- Bolsonaro was the chief guest at the 70th Republic Day celebrations this year.
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