In Germany, a 60-year-old man allegedly received nearly 90 doses of various COVID vaccines in order to fraudulently sell vaccination cards to people unwilling to be vaccinated themselves, the Guardian reported.
The man, whose name was not released due to German privacy rules, apparently received up to three jabs a day at different vaccination sites in the area of Saxony alone, according to DW.
While the man was not detained, he is being investigated for issuing vaccination cards without authorisation and document forgery.
A vaccination centre staff member in the city of Dresden became suspicious when he recognised the man. When the suspect showed up at a vaccination centre for a COVID shot for the second day in a row, staff members alerted the police, who arrive and arrested him. Several blank vaccination cards were confiscated from him by the police, who initiated criminal proceedings. The man was able to take use the real vaccine batch numbers from the shots he received to fill in the blank cards.
It was not immediately clear what impact receiving at least 87 shots of COVID vaccines, which were from different brands, had on the man’s health.
The case also laid bare the gaps in Germany’s health care system, which does not centrally store medical information or keep digital records.
“A national vaccine register or a coronavirus vaccine register would have shed light on the case immediately,” said Knut Köhler, a spokesperson for the Saxony state medical association.
In recent months, German police have conducted a number of raids in connection with forgery of vaccination passports. Many COVID sceptics refuse to get vaccinated in Germany, but still want to have the coveted vaccine passports that allow much easier access to public life and venues such as restaurants, theatres, swimming pools or workplaces.
Source: The Guardian
