Italian police arrest a nurse in the city of Palermo for falsifying vaccination certificates
Archival photo. Photo: Flavio Lo Scalzo / Reuters
Italian police have arrested a nurse who is accused of falsifying vaccination certificates and wasting vaccines against COVID-19, reports The Guardian.
A nurse working in a clinic in the city of Palermo on the island of Sicily gave fake injections to anti-vaccination people so that they would receive an official vaccination certificate for travel and visits to bars, restaurants and public transport.
Investigators used a hidden camera to film the 58-year-old nurse at her workplace. In the video, the police found how the health worker removes the drug from the syringe before administering the vaccine, then injects it into the patient. Police said the arrestee's own booster shot was fake. The woman pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the investigation, giving all the information she knew about her accomplices.
A similar crime was previously registered in the same clinic in December last year. Police said four more similar cases of certificate forgery were investigated in Italy in 2021.
In early December last year, Sergei Netesov, head of the laboratory of biotechnology and virology at the NSU Faculty of Natural Sciences, said that about 20 percent of residents of some Russian cities acquired QR codes illegally.
In mid-October 2021, Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, said that 80 percent of Russians who claim to have been vaccinated with Sputnik V, but fell ill with COVID-19, bought a vaccination certificate.
