Did you get saline water or vaccine? Here's what experts have to say about the recent fake jab busts

Did you get saline water or vaccine? Here's what experts have to say about the recent fake jab busts

So far, there have been no reports of any side effects amongst the people who were administered these fake vaccines.

As the COVID-19 vaccination drive picked pace in the country, several reports of fake jabs being administered and unauthorised camps being organised came to the forefront. And even celebs were not spared as they fell prey to the vaccine scam. Actor and Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty had got the first dose of the Covishield vaccine at a Kasba vaccination camp in Kolkata, among several others. However, she did not receive the customary SMS that is sent to people after they are administered a dose, and this aroused her suspicion.

In Mumbai, the police informed Bombay High Court on June 23 that over 2,000 people received fake COVID-19 vaccines at nine separately held private vaccination camps across the city. says media reports. The High Court expressed concern and asked the state government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to formulate a specific policy or guidelines to prevent such occurrences in future.

But what about the health repercussions? So far, there have been no reports of any side effects amongst the people who were administered these fake vaccines. However, Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni of the Bombay High Court asked the BMC to keep a tab on the health of citizens who were given fake jabs. The court has also told the BMC to find out what was there in the fake jabs, if it was saline water or anything else, if the people given the fake jabs have developed antibodies and to generally keep a check on these people's health.

Meanwhile in Kolkata, some of the "vaccines" seized from the office of the arrested fake IAS officer, Debanjan Deb - who had organised several camps to inoculate people - revealed that they are antibiotic injections used for a number of bacterial infections, a Kolkata Police official said on Thursday (June 24). "Debanjan Deb's office was raided this afternoon from where we have seized a large number of vials of Amikacin injections. We have also recovered fake labels of Covishield from there. Several documents and computers have been seized," an official told PTI.

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As per some other media reports, a senior Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) official later revealed that the seized vials, which were administered to Mimi and others at the camp, are indeed fake and they don't have Covishield but "is dust and some liquid."

The KMC has started spotting people who have taken COVID vaccines from Deb's camps. "After identifying all of them, we will consult doctors after evaluating their (those who took the jab) health conditions," a senior KMC official said.

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