Customs on Monday said they have seized 47,000 tablets of oral Covid drugs illegally imported into Hong Kong, with the medication intended for sales on the mainland where such Western medicines remain limited. The seized oral Covid drugs molnupiravir were among a haul of illegally imported pharmaceutical products worth HK$3 million, which also include drugs for curing cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Further investigations have led officers to a unit in a Sheung Shui commercial building on March 23, where they seized another 35,000 tablets of illegally imported oral Covid drugs and about 70,000 tablets of other suspected controlled medicines. On April 1, Officers intercepted two additional air parcels, which contained 900 vials of suspected illegally imported controlled medicines. Among Covid-19 supplies sent from the mainland to Hong Kong to help fight the city’s Covid outbreaks were boxes of Lianhua Qingwen pills.

Source: The Standard April 11, 2022 13:53 UTC