“This website is now under investigation by the MHRA.”
British officials said Monday they had opened a probe into an illegal website claiming to sell a cure for the novel coronavirus, which came to light during an AFP fact-checking investigation.
The man, speaking English in a Nigerian accent, urges people to “rush to any pharmacy” and buy the drug.AFP tracked the image to www.coronavirusmedication.co.uk, which sells packs of the drug for £79.99 . The MHRA added that it had shut down more than 26,000 websites involved in the illegal sale of medicines in Britain and removed more than 20,000 adverts and social media accounts over the past decade.Chloroquine phosphate is one of several drugs being tested for their efficiency in the fight against the global coronavirus epidemic, which erupted in China in December 2019.
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