Indonesia to get raw materials from India to produce Covid-19 drugs

A customer checks an imported Swiss drug maker Roche's anti-birflu Tamiflu tablets at a pharmacy in downtown Hanoi in this file photo from November 2005. Indonesia is making its own Tamiflu with raw materials from India to treat Covid-19 patients. - AFP

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): State-owned firms have received Covid-19 medicine and raw materials from India to help treat infected patients in the country.

Arya Sinulingga, an aide to State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir, said on Wednesday (April 15) that state-owned pharmaceutical firm PT Bio Farma had received its orders for oseltamivir on Tuesday afternoon from Hyderabad, India.