COVID-19 Impact on API Intermediate Market in Pharmaceuticals Industry
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a novel disease which was first originated in China, Wuhan and then spread worldwide due to which World Health Organization has declared it as a global pandemic. The novel strain of coronavirus belongs to the same virus family that causes the acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and middle-east respiratory syndrome.

Due to rapid growth of Coronavirus, lockdown and quarantine was the government initiatives in order to control the coronavirus spread. Therefore, these initiatives have created an unpredictable effect on both human daily lives and on global economy along with that the global pandemic of COVID-19 is affecting the health and personal decision-making of people.

APIs are the effective ingredient present in the medicine, and even small amount of active ingredients known to produce effective result. The APIs are manufactured using the raw materials which are known as intermediates. The intermediates are the key products for carrying out the process of formulating the active pharmaceutical ingredients. API and the intermediate market is such a huge market and has a great application in the medical field there is a huge demand of close monitoring of manufacturing process. But due to continuous pandemic of COVID 19 and long term shut down has put an adverse effect on overall drug manufacturing companies. The governments of several countries have reported that there is huge scarcity of APIs and intermediates amid the COVID 19 pandemic. The reason behind that is the barrier across the countries border that has an ultimatum effect over the import and export facilities of medicinal product among others.

The effect of COVID-19 is different for every industries and their products. Mainly COVID19 affect the economy by three different ways:

By affecting the demand of product /services,
Affecting the price,
Affecting the supply chain.
Demand of various API intermediates product and raw material increased in the pandemic situation of COVID19 due to increase in more respiratory disorder and people investing more in healthcare.

TABLE 1: Sales Data of API intermediates for 2019/2020
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