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Indore (Madhya Pradesh): At least 15000 vials of Remdesivir a key anti-viral drug used in the treatment of COVID-19 arrived in Indore and was airlifted to different parts of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday an official said. The latest consignment of Remdesivir reached Indore's Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport in a state government aircraft from Bengaluru and was transported to various divisional headquarters he said. State minister Tulsiram Silawat informed that of the 312 boxes containing 15000 vials of remdesivir 57 were sent to Bhopal 26 to Sagar 50 to Gwalior 32 to Rewa 50 to Jabalpur and 41 to Ujjain while 56 boxes were kept in Indore. The state has witnessed an acute shortage of the anti-viral drug in recent times and several persons have been arrested for black-marketing of the injection. Similar consignments of Remdesivir had arrived in Indore on April 15 and 18 and were distributed to different parts of the state..