Fake Covid-19 vaccine that is injected into residents contains salt water.
SuaraRiau.id – Indian police revealed that at least 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19 vaccine in Mumbai, Maharashtra on Friday (25/6/2021).
Fake Covid-19 vaccine that is injected into residents contains salt water.
Police in Mumbai say that some 2,000 people who thought they were being vaccinated were actually injected with saline solution.
However, fast-moving police claimed to have arrested ten of the perpetrators, including two doctors at a private hospital in Mumbai I, with the scammers targeting residents of an upscale residential complex in one case.
“We (later) found out that eight more camps were organized by this syndicate,” said a local police joint commissioner, Vishwas Patil. Terkini.id— Suara.com network on Sunday 27 June 2021.
The perpetrators managed to pocket cash worth Rp. 241.5 million through the Covid-19 vaccine fraud they carried out.
It is known that Mumbai’s health authorities are known to be exempting any type of Covid-19 vaccine injection due to the devastating wave of the pandemic in April and May.
Not only in Mumbai, there are about 500 people in Kolkata, West Bengal, some of whom are people with special needs and transgender.
Police in Kolkata have also arrested a man posing as a civil servant with a master’s degree in genetics who is reported to have run as many as 8 fake vaccination camps.
Police said at least 250 disabled and transgender people were injected in one place and a total of nearly 500 people may have been given fake vaccines across the city.
Kolkata official Atin Ghosh said that the seized bottles of the Covid-19 vaccine were falsely labeled as containing the AstraZeneca Covishield Covid-19 vaccine.
“It was found that the Covishield label was attached to another label, namely Amikacin Sulphate 500 mg, an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections of the urinary tract, bones, brain, lungs and blood.” he said.
The scam came to light after an actress and politician, Mimi Chakraborty, who received a vaccination in one of the camps was asked to raise awareness, but she became suspicious and alerted the police.
Police confiscated fake identity cards from the suspect, one of the information ministry officials, and another as the city commissioner. His car wears a Kolkata government sticker.
Debashis Barui, a Kolkata health official, said that now many of those who have been injected are panicking about the possible side effects of the fake vaccine.
“If there is an emergency, civil authorities will organize medical camps in the area to treat those who got fake vaccines.”
One of them, Ruma Sikdar (35) said that he felt sleepy and felt uncomfortable in his arms.
“What I’m worried about is how to get the actual dose before the third wave hits,” said the man who works as a construction worker.
Meanwhile, Debjit Majumdar (20) said he was very upset with the perpetrators who took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic situation to provide fake vaccines.
“We didn’t think this could happen when the world was battling a pandemic,” explained the man who is a student.
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