Suspected COVID-19 hit drug plant in Mysuru shut

Mysuru: District deputy commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar informed that the drug-making plant of pharma major Jubilant Life Sciences at Nanjangud near Mysuru has been shut down after it was suspected to have been contaminated by coronavirus from a container that came from China with raw materials.

Addressing presspersons he said, “We have ordered closure of the plant and sealing of the entire premises after some of its employees tested Covid-19 positive after a container came from China in March.”

“We have also quarantined the plant’s staff and their families at their homes in the town while the affected patients are under treatment at a designated hospital in Mysuru,” Sankar said.

“The container has been sent for forensic test to find if its surface material carried the virus as it was shipped from Covid-hit China from where the company imports applied pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for making drugs,” Sankar added.