Mad scramble for Remdesivir in capital

Social media message led over 50 people to queue up outside a private firm for the drug

Anxious family members of COVID-19 patients jostled with each other outside a private firm’s premises near Kukatpally Y Junction here on Monday afternoon. All this to lay their hands on Remdesivir vials which was in shortage for the past few weeks. A serpentine queue extended for over 1 km and some more people stood along the length of a long gate of the firm’s building. When one opened the gate to step out of the premises, people barged in. Around two policemen posted there had to physically hold back people, many of whom had come from faraway districts in Telangana and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in search of the drug.