They sold and promised cures and therapies for Covid, even with drugs that could only be sold by prescription and purchased in pharmacies: these are the 95 websites obscured by the operational department of the Carabinieri del Nas, in the last operation conducted between June and July. Many of the drugs contained active ingredients subject to restrictions of use and specific indications for clinical use, such as the antivirals lopinavir / ritonavir, remdesivir and ribavirin, the antibiotic azithromycin, the antimalarials chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine and the anti-inflammatory colchicine, and tocilizumab. for rheumatoid arthritis.
The Nas have also removed from the ‘virtual showcase’ a marketplace for Italian users with 12 advertisements relating to medicines with umifenovir, not authorized in Europe and without scientific evidence of efficacy in the treatment or prevention of Covid, on the unauthorized drug camostat mesylate in Italy, and the antiviral oseltamivir. Thus, the measures carried out so far in 2021 by the Nas (209 of which linked to the Covid emergency) have risen to 241, inviting citizens to be wary of online offers of unauthorized or dubious medicines, and remember that the online sale of Prescription drugs is strictly prohibited.
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