Desperation Is Creating a Black Market of Fake COVID-19 Shots in Mexico

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In March, Mexican armed forces confiscated 5,775 doses of what looked like the Russian “Sputnik V” vaccine hidden inside a cooler, under ice and Coca-Cola cans.

17, the city’s health authority responded to a complaint about the clinic’s operations, raided the site, and discovered the vaccines were fakes. Police found the pirated shots stored inside beer coolers with faulty expiration dates and different batch numbers from the Pfizer doses distributed by the federal government.Mexico has long battled with a black market of stolen, adulterated, and expired medicines.in 2012.

The fakes are mostly sold online, particularly through social media, according to COFEPRIS, but the health agency also advices the population not to buy vaccines offered at any pharmacy, hospital, shop, or through the phone. Mexican officials have brought down at leastwebsites and social media pages offering essential health products since the pandemic started, ranging from COVID-19 tests, oxygen tanks, medicine like ivermectin, and COVID shots.

 

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