New Delhi (CNN) Thousands of people have fallen prey to an elaborate wide-ranging scam selling fake coronavirus vaccines in India, with doctors and medical workers among those arrested for their involvement, authorities say.
At least 12 fake vaccination drives were held in or near the financial hub Mumbai, in the country's western Maharashtra state, said Vishal Thakur, a senior official of the Mumbai police department.
"They were using saline water and injecting it," Thakur said. "Every fake vaccination camp that they held, they were doing this."
An estimated 2,500 people were given fake shots, he said. The organizers charged their victims fees for the shots, earning up to $28,000 in total.
"We have arrested doctors," he added. "They were using a hospital which was producing the fake certificates, vials, syringes."
dkyguy1995 on July 5th, 2022 at 05:50 UTC »
Pretty shitty. Literally the only positive is they gave saline instead of water so it didn't kill them
proverbialwhatever on July 5th, 2022 at 05:28 UTC »
Not that it necessarily matters, but this story was from a year ago, when the delta variant was ravaging India (the subject of the piece in question)
infodawg on July 5th, 2022 at 05:20 UTC »
let's see the perps get sent away for a long, long time. these were medical professionals, in trusted positions who used that trust to scam innocent, at-risk people. fuck the scammers. surely people died as a result of this.