REMDESIVIR Subject: Science & tech Context: Gilead to send Remdesivir vials to India, US stands by India to help fight COVID-19 2nd wave. Concept: Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) will have to issue an import license to bring the Gilead’s Remdesivir stocks to India. The volume of this is still not known, […]

    REMDESIVIR Subject: Science & tech Context: India Bans Export of Anti-Viral Drug Remdesivir amid Surge in Covid Cases Concept: Remdesivir is designed to obstruct the stage of replication, when the virus creates copies of itself, followed endlessly by the copies creating copies of themselves. Once the virus enters the human cell, it releases […]

Subject : Science & tech Concept : Remdesivir is designed to obstruct the stage of replication, when the virus creates copies of itself, followed endlessly by the copies creating copies of themselves. Once the virus enters the human cell, it releases its genetic material, which is then copied using the body’s existing mechanism. At every […]