By 2020, when the country is going through the Covid crisis, about $ 3.5 billion or 650 pills have been sold, according to a study. Dolo and Paracetamol, commonly used for fever and headache symptoms, set a record last year in sales.
According to the report, if the 350 billion dollar tablets were arranged vertically, it would be 6,000 times taller than Mount Everest and 63,000 times taller than the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa. The size of a dolo 650 is 1.5 cm. Before Kovid, there were 7.5 crore strip dolo tablets in 2019. There are 15 pills in a strip.
According to the report, Dolo will become the second anti-fever pill in the country with sales of Rs 307 crore by 2021. GSK’s footfall tops the list. The turnover was `310 crore. Prior to Kovid, sales of paracetamol in all categories and pills were Rs 530 crore. But by 2021, sales will have increased by 70 percent. With this, the annual revenue has reached Rs 924 crore.
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