Fake Covid Vaccination Camps Reported In UP, Maharashtra, Bengal: Centre
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The Ministry of Health has directed the state governments to investigate these fake COVID-19 vaccines and take stringent legal and administrative actions so that such fraudulent activities are not repeated in the future.
Instances of fake COVID-19 vaccination camps and vaccines have come to the central government's notice from Maharashtra, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, the Lok Sabha was told on Friday.
The Ministry of Health has directed the state governments to investigate these instances and take stringent legal and administrative actions so that such fraudulent activities are not repeated in the future, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.
Her response was to a question on whether the government has identified any fake vaccines of approved Covishield, Covaxin, Sputnik V across the country since the beginning of the vaccination programme, and what measures the government has taken to identify and stop these fake vaccines from circulation.
