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While a consignment of 17,000 tablets were seized from an outlet in Cuttack, no spurious medicine of the particular consignment has been used in any patient in the Madhya Pradesh. (Representative image)
BHUBANESWAR: Around 40,600 spurious Covid drug favipiravir tablets were shipped from Odisha to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh after these were brought from Noida in Uttar Pradesh to Cuttack, authorities here said on Saturday.
Quoting preliminary findings, state drugs controller AS Das said after it came to light that a Cuttack-based dealer has sent the tablets to Gwalior, the authorities in Madhya Pradesh have been alerted.
“While a consignment of 17,000 tablets were seized from an outlet in Cuttack, no spurious medicine of the particular consignment has been used in any patient in the state. However, further probe is on to find out if any earlier consignment has come to the state and distributed to any retailer and through them to any patient,” Das told TOI.