Fake vaccine certificates are flourishing on Moscow's black market

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Russia\u0027s internet regulator said it shut down 150 web pages and accounts selling the phoney documents, with the average price of a fake vaccine certificate…

A new black market was born with a deep potential clientele: the many Russians still hesitant to be vaccinated even amid a surge in coronavirus cases.a copy of his private Instagram messages, sent a query to one account about the cost of a fraudulent vaccination certificate.

The extraordinary measures — Moscow now has among the strictest vaccine rules — flow from Russia’s inability to gets its arms around the pandemic despite two homegrown vaccines, led by Sputnik V, that are widely available and free. Russia’s latest coronavirus wave also shows how vaccine hesitancy threatens to prolong the pandemic worldwide.

Sobyanin said that about 90 per cent of the new Moscow cases are the Delta variant. Infections in the city of about 12 million people have spiked to more than 8,500 per day this month, according to Russia’s coronavirus headquarters, and 98 coronavirus-related deaths were reported Friday in Moscow, a single-day record for the city.

Moscow tried to foil counterfeiters by insisting on registering vaccination certificates for QR codes — those square bar code mazes of lines and boxes — rather than just a physical document. Anna, the university student, said that while she was thinking about buying a fake vaccination certificate, she’s fearful of getting caught now that the schemes are in the spotlight. Moscow authorities launched 24 criminal cases against suspected vendors of fake vaccination certificates and detained several couriers delivering them to clients.

A troubled public relations campaign is to blame for Russians’ distrust of vaccines, said Pavel Volchkov, the head of the Genome Engineering Lab at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus disease at a vaccination centre in Depo food mall in Moscow, Russia on June 17, 2021.“Nihilism” is to blame for the surge in infections, contended Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who, for a time last year, wore a protective badge called a “virus blocker” — a gadget with chlorine dioxide that purports to help shield against pathogens despite no scientific evidence that it works.

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Lol just open the world back up and stop pushing this bull crap on us already we tired of it quite a few aren’t Falling for it either. 98% plus survival rate and someppl acting like it’s guaranteed death sentence

Lock them up!! Gov’ts should mandate the wearing of white arm band for unvaxxed ppl! Com’on post, donuts job, investigate.. oh, wait, never mind, journalists don’t do that anymore

You can print them at home

Ya I just got one from a guy in Brampton fam

Will be plenty available in the US as well! We need better certificates which cannot be forged before opening Canada to these countries that don’t believe covid exits, and that includes the US.

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