4 March 2020 - New Zealand's drug buying agency PHARMAC says disruptions to the supply of some medicines are inevitable with the outbreak of coronavirus.
"Quarantines may slow or halt activities in manufacturing plants or they may impact transportation and ports," PHARMAC's director of operations Lisa Williams told the Herald.
It comes after India, the world's main supplier of generic drugs, has restricted the export of 26 pharmaceutical ingredients and the medicines made from them, including paracetamol, Reuters reports.