Drug

Coronavirus

CORONAVIRUS

Pfizer agrees to license Covid-19 medicine to poor countries

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/16/21

The licences should give manufacturers in 95 countries - home to 53% of the world's population - the right to produce the drug

FILED - Colombia's President Ivan Duque gives a speech during a press conference regarding the first line of Bogota's metro system that will be opened by 2028. Photo: Chepa Beltran/LongVisual via ZUMA Wire/dpa

World

DRUG TRAFFICKING

Colombia authorities capture country's most wanted trafficker

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/24/21

President Ivan Duque said in a press conference the arrest was "only comparable to the capture of Pablo Escobar," the drug lord killed in a shootout with police in 1993

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Finland

SECURITY

Police to monitor intoxicant use at end of school celebrations

The Nomad Today 6/4/21

The police have detected in Espoo the use of an unknown chemical which causes aggressive and unpredictable behavior.

Finland

SPECIAL OPERATION

Police to monitor parks in search of young drug users

The Nomad Today 8/14/20

Special operations will be carried out during the next two weekends.

The European Commission has signed a contract with US pharmaceutical giant Gilead, securing 30,000 doses of the Covid-19 drug remdesivir for EU member states and Britain. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/dpa.

Coronavirus

EU buys 30,000 doses of remdesivir to treat severe Covid-19 cases

The Nomad Today 7/29/20

Remdesivir is the first drug that received EU approval for coronavirus treatment.

World

Drug gang was behind torture chamber found in the Netherlands

The Nomad Today 7/9/20

A shipping container, referred to as 'treatment room' by the suspects, contained a dentist's chair together with surgery instruments, pliers and shears intended for torture.