The state Duma at plenary meeting on Wednesday supported an amendment to the act online sale of drugs, which permits the government to impose at the time of emergencies and epidemics the remote sale of prescription drugs. before the State Duma returned to the second reading the Draft law on online sales of OTC drugs to finalize it, taking into account the amendments on the sale of prescription drugs. The original wording of the 2nd reading of the bill provided for the remote sale of prescription drugs from 2022, However, the amendment was agreed to withdraw the document because of the position of the Ministry of health opposed. Third reading of the bill was obliged to be in mid-March. However, the government has proposed to return the Draft law on the online sale of medicines in the second reading, to discuss an amendment to the draft law on the sale of prescription drugs, said the head of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. As said Last news member of the state Duma on health, Alexander Petrov, according again made to the text of the draft amendment, the remote retail prescription drugs will be introduced on time in a difficult situation. "in remote Commerce will not include medications the subject-quantitative account, psychotropics, drugs and alcohol more than 25% ", - he added. As explained Last news Deputy Chairman of the Department Leonid Ogul, this value will not be delayed and will begin to act immediately after the promulgation of the law together with other provisions. However, to operate only Until 31 December 2020. the bill authorizing the sale of OTC drugs through the Internet, was adopted in first reading in early winter of 2017, then his movement was stopped for a while. In February, the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin asked the deputies to expedite the adoption of the bill. Prior to the law, pharmaceutical companies are able to offer consumers only the service online booking with the ability to pick up the ordered medications at your local pharmacy. The amendments to the second reading of the bill from the outset it was Proposed to enter the resolution of the remote retail sale of drugs, prescription, with the exception of narcotic and psychotropic drugs and alcohol with volume fraction of ethyl alcohol more than 25%. Moreover, this value relative to prescription drugs had to be postponed. It was proposed to bring it into effect from 1 January 2022, and to sell over-the-counter - from 1 July 2020. The latest information on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager. Russia <span style="color:darkgray