New Delhi: Yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved on Wednesday said that there are no AYUSH Ministry restrictions on selling Coronil, a drug the company recently launched as medicine for COVID-19 but is now calling it a product to manage the disease.
The Union ministry confirmed that Patanjali can sell the product but not as a cure for COVID-19.
AYUSH Ministry has only permitted to sell this particular formulation as an immunity booster and not as a medicinal cure for COVID-19, it said.
At a press conference in Haridwar, Ramdev claimed the ministry has said that Patanjali did an appropriate job for COVID-19 management.
"I want to tell people who want to try these medicines that there is no restriction on their sale now and they will be available in a kit everywhere in the country from today," he added, referring to Coronil and the two other products Patanjali is promoting together.
Ramdev said that the Union ministry had asked him to use the term COVID management in place of COVID treatment and he is following the instruction.
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Even while backtracking on the describing Coronil as a treatment for COVID-19, the company stuck to its claim that the drug's trial on mild to moderately ill patients was successful.
Its press note said that the trial, conducted after the necessary approvals, showed 100 per cent recovery of patients within seven days.
It said that the AYUSH Ministry has categorically agreed that Patanjali had appropriately worked on COVID-19 management.
Now there is no difference of opinion between AYUSH Ministry and Patanjali, it added.
As per the ministry, Patanjali is allowed to manufacture and distribute its Divya Coronil tablet, Divya Swasari Vati and Divya Anu Talia across India, as per the manufacturing licences granted by State Licensing Authority, Ayurvedic and Unani Services, Government of Uttarakhand, it said.
The Uttarakhand department was among the agencies which had questioned Patanjali's claim to have developed a drug to cure COVID-19. It said that the company had only been given a licence to manufacture an immunity booster.
Speaking exclusively with ETV Bharat, Union Ayush Minister Shripad Nayak said that Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev's drug Coronil has been given a green signal as an immunity booster for COVID management after the Ministry has scrutinised all the documents and information provided by Patanjali regarding the medicine.
He stated that the Uttarakhand government had also given license for Coronil as an effective drug for boosting immunity.
The Ministry has also recommended few things which will help people to enhance their immunity to fight against coronavirus, he said adding that the Ministry is putting all efforts to get the cure for coronavirus and each day new medicines and drugs are being formulated.
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