Customs duty waiver for anti-fungal drug, Covid testing kits

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After Covid-19 broke out last year, India has seen a steady rise in fungal infections also. With the third wave of Covid around the corner, the Union government on Tuesday exempted basic customs duty on imports of specified API (active pharma ingredient)/excipients for Amphotericin B till August 31 and raw materials for manufacturing Covid test … Read more

Covid-19: ICMR liberalises import of testing kits, allows globally approved tests in India

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The national Covid-19 positivity rate was at 21% and 310 districts were reporting more than the national average positivity rate, he said. Faced with the upsurge in Covid-19 cases in the second wave and to meet the urgent need to ramp up testing, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday liberalised import of … Read more