This time of year I'm always supplied for 2 weeks of being snowed in so no need to panic. Like the chief medical officer says though it's going to be a marathon not a sprint so you only need to cover gaps in the supply of essentials at the moment and not a couple of weeks of lockdown. I've put aside a large bottle of Calpol though...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
India has just limited what drugs it exports. Since most of the drugs in the world are made in India, and they get the raw materials from China, there will be shortages. Also the UK is limiting sale abroad of certain medicines.
From Pharmacy P3 magzine
The economic impact of the coronavirus on the global pharmaceutical
industry became evident on Tuesday when the Indian Government ordered an
export ban on 26 active pharmaceutical ingredients and formulations made from them.
Products listed include paracetamol, metronidazole, acyclovir,
chloramphenicol, erythromycin, clindamycin, progesterone, and vitamin
B1, B6 and B12. The ingredients and medicines listed account for 10 per
cent of all Indian pharmaceutical exports.
Indian manufacturers rely on China for almost 70 per cent of their
APIs, according to the BBC, and have struggled to source ingredients
from Chinese factories which have been closed down as China battled to
contain the coronavirus.
India is the world's largest provider of generic drugs. In the
financial year 2018-19 the country exported pharmaceuticals worth US
$17.3bn. In terms of volume, Indian drugs comprise of 20 per cent of the
global generic drug exports, according to Statista.
Punkdoc, I have heard a few times now that soap and water is more efficacious than sanitising hand gel. Why is that? I would have thought that the alcohol and other antibacterial ingredients in the gel would fight the germs better than simple soap. Is that not so? Is it perhaps because people wash with soap and water more vigorously and for a longer period?
"I'm completely baffled by the Australian obsession with loo roll?"
I wouldn't assume it's really a thing. People tend to bang up a picture or a comment out of context and it becomes a meme. We often don't know when or where picture was taken. The mainstream media love a toilet story. It might turn out to be the main thing people remember about Covid - Happy Birthday and loo roll. Sigh.
I’ve been told that this company (home delivery loo paper) may have whipped up panic about loo paper Down Under, if you’ll forgive the expression. 😉 https://au.whogivesacrap.org/collections/all
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Since most of the drugs in the world are made in India, and they get the
raw materials from China, there will be shortages. Also the UK is
limiting sale abroad of certain medicines.
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When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The economic impact of the coronavirus on the global pharmaceutical industry became evident on Tuesday when the Indian Government ordered an export ban on 26 active pharmaceutical ingredients and formulations made from them.
Products listed include paracetamol, metronidazole, acyclovir, chloramphenicol, erythromycin, clindamycin, progesterone, and vitamin B1, B6 and B12. The ingredients and medicines listed account for 10 per cent of all Indian pharmaceutical exports.
Indian manufacturers rely on China for almost 70 per cent of their APIs, according to the BBC, and have struggled to source ingredients from Chinese factories which have been closed down as China battled to contain the coronavirus.
India is the world's largest provider of generic drugs. In the financial year 2018-19 the country exported pharmaceuticals worth US $17.3bn. In terms of volume, Indian drugs comprise of 20 per cent of the global generic drug exports, according to Statista.
Meanwhile three medicines have been added to the list of medicines that cannot be parallel exported from the UK. They are lopinavir + ritonavir, chloroquine phosphate and azathioprine.whipped up panic about loo paper Down Under, if you’ll forgive the expression. 😉
https://au.whogivesacrap.org/collections/all
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.