Reduction In Flights Hits Global Supply Chain
Global And European Bodies Call For Urgent Action Amid Coronavirus
Executive Summary
Urgent action is needed to reopen air freight routes so that the global off-patent industry can deliver critical medicines and supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic, international industry representatives have insisted.
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