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Vietnam: Exports of drugs used to prevent and treat COVID-19 banned

Announcement

15 Apr 2020

Vietnam has banned the exports of drugs used in the treatment and control of the COVID-19.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

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Implementation date

15 Apr 2020

Revocation date:

04 May 2020

Announced: 15 Apr 2020
Export ban
On 15 April 2020, the Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health prohibited the exports of 37 pharmaceutical drugs used in the treatment and prevention of the COVID-19 virus. The proh...
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