After reports from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan linked the cough syrup Coldrif to the deaths of at least 11 children over the past month, Kerala has become the latest state to suspend the sale and distribution of the medicine.

Kerala’s Health Minister Veena George announced on Saturday that the state’s Drugs Control Department had ordered an immediate halt to all sales of the product as a precautionary measure.

The action follows an ongoing probe into suspected contamination in a batch of the syrup, produced by Sresan Pharma, a manufacturer based in Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district.

Minister Veena George, in a statement issued in Thiruvananthapuram, said that though the flagged batch was not found to have been distributed in Kerala, the government decided to act “out of an abundance of

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