There were 42 sites, located on foreign servers, obscured by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Health because various drugs were advertised or offered for sale, including against covid 19. On 35 of the 42 sites, ivermectin, a pesticide used in veterinary field and for which the EMA, in March 2021, recommended not to use the active ingredient for the prevention or treatment of covid outside of clinical studies.
With this operation, the sites obscured by NAS in 2021 rise to 283, of which 244 linked to the Covid emergency.