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Friday, December 17, 2021 5 Brooklin Town Crier DRPS completed its fourth week of the Festive R.I.D.E program, stopping more than 1,240 vehicles and charging 12 drivers with impaired driving offences. Durham Regional Officers conducted R.I.D.E checks in Ajax, Clarington, Pickering, Whitby, Oshawa and Scugog with the following totals (the numbers in brackets reflect 2020 third week totals for comparison): 1240 (1900) Vehicles stopped by R.I.D.E. • 36 (23) People given Roadside Breath Tests 3 (3) People received "3 Day Suspensions" for registering a "WARN" 4 (2) Novice Driver received a 3, 7 or 30 Licence Suspension 12 (12) People were charged with Drinking and Driving Offences 3 (12) Criminal Code Charges 56 (67) Charged with various Highway Traffic Act offences 0 (0) Drug Offences After the fourth week, the Festive R.I.D.E team has charged a total of 47 motorists with impaired driving offences. Last year at the same time, 36 had been charged. Another three motorists have registered a WARN on a roadside screening device and had their driver's licence suspended for three days. Last year at the same time, three drivers had their licence suspended for registering a WARN. A complete list of those charged with Impaired/Exceed will be posted on our website later this week at www.drps.ca under Hot Topics. Note: Under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, anyone charged with a drinking and driving criminal offence will have his or her driver's licence suspended for 90 days and their vehicle impounded automatically for seven days. "Keep Everyone Safe: Don't Drink and Drive" D.R.P.S. Festive R.I.D.E. Results - Week Four Merck, known as MSD outside Canada and the United States, announced it has entered into an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to manufacture molnupiravir, Merck's investigational oral antiviral medicine for the treatment of COVID-19. This agreement is part of Merck's commitment to make this investigational medicine widely available globally, if approved for use by regulatory agencies. Molnupiravir is being developed by Merck in collaboration with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. Thermo Fisher's manufacturing site in Whitby, Ontario, will manufacture molnupiravir for distribution in Canada and the United Kingdom as well as markets in the European Union, Asia Pacific and Latin America, pending local market approvals. It is one of three manufacturing sites in the world for this therapy. Merck also announced it has entered into a Supply Agreement with the Government of Canada for molnupiravir. Through this agreement, the Government of Canada has secured access to 500,000 patient courses, with options for up to 500,000 more in 2022. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP is a biotechnology company focused on emerging infectious diseases. Ridgeback markets EbangaTM for the treatment of Ebola and has a late-stage development pipeline which includes molnupiravir for the treatment of COVID-19. For over 130 years, Merck has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases in pursuit of our mission to save and improve lives. Merck continues to be at the forefront of research to prevent and treat diseases that threaten people and animals - including cancer, infectious diseases such as HIV and Ebola, and emerging animal diseases. Merck Canada To Manufacture Covid Drug in Whitby you? Maybe we should put the brakes on? (9,8) 8 I have 94 percent recall of all conversation. I tested it myself. (6) 9 The devil's greatest achievement is that people don't believe he exists. Nowadays, the concept of evil is politically incorrect. (3,5) 10 Adventure is out there! (2) 11 You write a screenplay without conflict or crisis you'll bore your audience to tears. (10) 15 Agent Tom Hardy: You don't drink beer? Who doesn't drink beer? (5) 16 Lester Siegel: If I'm going to make a fake movies, it's going to be a fake hit. (4) 19 This town needs an enema. (6) 21 This isn't a hospital. It's an insane asylum. And it's your fault. (4) 23 So, Peter, you've become a pirate. (4) 25 Hector: I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed. (4) 26 Do you believe in Wonder Woman? (4) 27 Do you like this shop? I buy all my clothes here. Good for me, you know. Cheap. Nice fashion. (4)