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Police managed to hunt down and arrest a drug dealer after receiving a tip-off from DHL in Chiang Mai.

The national drug system development committee included antiviral drugs for hepatitis B and C, both of which could trigger liver cancer, on the National List of Essential Medicines on Wednesday.

Researchers are likely to develop Covid-19 antiviral drugs than vaccines as there is lower investment involved, expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday.

The United States has charged former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was extradited to the U.S. on Thursday (April 21), for alleged participation in a cocaine-importation conspiracy and related firearms offences, the Justice Department said.

Anthelmintic drugs cannot treat Covid-19, Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine lecturer Thira Woratanarat made clear in a Facebook post on Thursday.

The Chulabhorn Royal Academy on Monday delivered 500,000 capsules of Favipiravir to the National Health Security Office (NHSO) for the treatment of Covid-19 patients under the NHSO home and community isolation system.

Prime Minster Hun Sen has granted approval for healthcare institutions to provide Covid-19 antiviral medicine Molnupiravir at no cost to medical and frontline workers who have tested positive and are exhibiting mild symptoms that can be treated at home.

Wearing warm clothes, exercising or consuming hot drinks to keep warm is far safer than drinking alcohol, the Department of Medical Services (DMS) warned on Friday.

The COVID-19 pandemic, as well as gun violence and drug overdoses, have caused lasting damage to the U.S. workforce over the last two years, media have recently reported.

A 36-year-old motorcyclist along with a young girl, 12, shockingly identified by police as his “girlfriend”, died on the spot after speeding through a red light and crashing into a garbage truck on Wednesdays late night. Both had drugs in their possession.

Expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan confirmed on Monday that the new anti-viral drug Molnupiravir can reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death within five days of developing a Covid-19 infection.

Tuesday was a very unlucky day for a driver when some packages slipped off his trailer and policemen rushed to help him only to find the boxes were filled with amphetamine pills.