Australia’s off-patent industry association, the GBMA, and local brand organization Medicines Australia have set out their plans for collaborating on supplying essential medicines amid the coronavirus pandemic. The move follows a recent temporary authorization by local competition regulator the ACCC that will allow the bodies to work more closely together.

The World Customs Organization and World Trade Organization have pledged to work together to break down trade barriers for essential supplies in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

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.