Chinese vaccines advertised online likely dangerous counterfeits, warn experts

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Antonio Magi, president of the dell’Ordine Doctors’ Association in Rome, recently warned: “Don’t take a risk to buy Chinese vaccines privately from the black market. We have to wait because most of them are fake.”

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Rome have reported that a number of Italians have bought so- called “COVID- 19 vaccines” with unknown origins, which were possibly made in China and brought to Italy by Italian Chinese, but it was difficult to distinguish between genuine and fake vaccines.

“In August, I received a WeChat request from a stranger, asking if I could help bring a batch of medicines from China to the UK by the cheapest sea freight. When I saw the picture he sent me, on which it was written “COVID- 19 vaccine,” I refused him,” Du Chen