More than two dozen cases of counterfeit New Crown pneumonia vaccines have broken out in China, with some of the fake vaccines flowing outside the country. The photo shows Chinese vaccines being shipped to Zimbabwe, unrelated to this case.
More than 20 cases of falsification involving the Newcastle pneumonia (CCP pneumonia) vaccine have been uncovered in China. Those involved made fake vaccines from physiological saline or mineral water and sold them at higher prices, and some of the fake vaccines even went overseas.
According to Xinhua, the official media of the Communist Party of China, at the early stage of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination, there were unscrupulous elements profiteering by making and selling fake vaccines, reselling them at high prices and conducting unauthorized mass vaccination. As of the 10th of this month, prosecutors nationwide have approved the arrest of 70 suspects in 21 cases.
The Communist Party’s top prosecutor recently disclosed some shocking details in the four typical vaccine cases released, including the use of physiological saline to make counterfeits and the acceptance of money to solicit participation in emergency vaccinations.
The suspects reportedly used physiological saline to make fake vaccines in hotel rooms and rented houses, and then used mineral water instead of physiological saline to make fake vaccines.
After the production was completed, the suspects falsely claimed that the vaccines were “genuine New Crown vaccines obtained from internal channels”, resulting in the inflow of fake vaccines into the society. The remaining boxes and semi-finished products from the counterfeiting process were destroyed by them.
The suspects were arrested last November and were initially found to have manufactured and sold about 58,000 doses of counterfeit vaccines, making a profit of about RMB 18 million.
Another typical case shows that after the fake vaccines flowed into the society, some unscrupulous individuals sold them to the public at high prices and entrusted a village doctor to inoculate the purchasers at his residence and in his car. By December 2020, a total of more than 500 vaccinations were administered to more than 200 people, and the suspect made a profit of $547,000.
In addition to manufacturing and selling counterfeit vaccines, the suspects also arranged for ineligible people to participate in emergency vaccination programs at high prices at hospitals, and even solicited customers through social media WeChat groups by posting advertisements to the public, forging full sets of vaccination documents such as corporate employee certificates, certificates of employment abroad and airline itineraries, and charging high fees.
In addition, some of the fake vaccines were flown to Shenzhen via Tianjin and smuggled abroad through Hong Kong.
Many netizens questioned the success of the series of fake vaccines, “The point is where did the 58,000 sticks go? How many have been recovered?”
“How did he sell it? This vaccine cannot be purchased by individuals, right? If he could sell it, he sold it to government departments, so check it out!”
“Everyone is scolding the manufacture of vaccines, but I have a question, vaccination is not in the formal vaccination institutions? The vaccines are also traceable, so how did this unlicensed fake vaccine get into the market and make so much profit? Who was it sold to? Who was injected?”
Another netizen said, “Why is it that some people are convinced and do not suspect fake vaccines once they say they were obtained through internal channels? This is the criticism of the contemporary officialdom “special” “special supply” caused by …… privileged and connected can be subcontracted through the approval of tied… …way to get scarce goods, in exchange for the benefit of selling profits, ignoring the state regulations, which is the result of the official business subterfuge.”
In fact, the problem of fake vaccines in China is endless. Lu Jun, co-founder of the anti-discrimination charity Beijing Yiren Ping Center, told Radio Free Asia that in China, what is more serious than smuggled vaccines is problematic vaccines produced by regular manufacturers: “For example, the vaccine injury incident that happened in Shanxi in 2007, and the one that happened in Shandong in 2016. Either the formal manufacturers produced vaccines of poor quality, or the government Epidemic prevention departments operated in various irregularities, or even illegalities, in the process of vaccine procurement, distribution and transportation.”
In an interview with Radio Free Asia, lawyer Tang, who has represented a number of vaccine rights cases, said that problematic vaccines have emerged many times in China, but each Time they have been handled haphazardly, and not only has the problem not been truly solved, but the people who raised the issue have been silenced.
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