Gurugram, India: The Haryana Food and Drug Administration on Thursday busted a fake hand sanitizer manufacturing company and seized at least 5,000 hand sanitizers.

Ripan Mehta, a drug controller officer, said, “We have busted a hand sanitizer manufacturing company and seized at least 5,000 hand sanitizers.”

Mehta said that the company was manufacturing industrial oils and started to manufacture hand sanitizers.

He added, “The company is into industrial oils and they started manufacturing hand sanitizers just 10 days back. They had filled isopropyl alcohol in the bucket and were filling the hand sanitizer bottles with it.”

As of writing this article, 83 people in India have been confirmed to have the deadly coronavirus.

On the global scale, the coronavirus has infected 145,816 and has killed 5,438 people.