Counterfeit drugs and fake COVID vaccines endanger us all 

Attitudes to Covid vaccines range from those who won’t countenance them under any circumstances to those so eager to be vaccinated they are willing to bypass official channels and purchase a vaccine on the black market. Covid vaccines have joined pharmaceuticals on the counterfeit list.  

Vaccine fraud is now gripping China, with the leader of a multi-million-dollar scam recently arrested for passing off saline solution and mineral water as Covid-19 vaccines. This is just one of 70 similar arrests. 

An international network for distributing fake Covid vaccines has also just been dismantled in South Africa. Interpol said 400 ampoules, equivalent to around 2,400 doses of the fake vaccine,…