Berlin: Officials at a vaccination centre in Eilenburg, Germany, caught a sexagenarian when he turned up for a Covid shot for the second day in a row. The police found several blank vaccination cards on him and have initiated criminal proceedings. During inquiry it was found that the man got himself vaccinated against Covid-19 about 90 times in a bid to sell fake vaccination certificates carrying real vaccine batch numbers for people against inoculation.
His name has not been disclosed. The accused has not been arrested but is under investigation for issuing vaccination cards illegally and forging documents. The man has received dozens of Covid jabs from different brands, and it is not immediately clear how these would impact his health.
Police in Germany have been carrying out several raids in the wake of reports about an increase in forged Covid vaccination passports in recent months amid vaccine hesitancy. The European country has recorded a fresh wave of infections in the last one month, which health experts and authorities have blamed on BA.2 Omicron subvariant.
