India set to ship drug sought by Trump for coronavirus


  • World
  • Friday, 10 Apr 2020

FILE PHOTO: People walk past a chemist shop at a market in Mumbai, India, June 24, 2014. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File photo/File Photo

NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - India is set to begin shipping the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to the United States where President Donald Trump has touted it as a potential weapon against the coronavirus.

"The first shipments should start next week," said Sudarshan Jain, secretary general of Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA).

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