Man in Germany gets 90 Covid-19 shots to sell forged vaccine passes

A file photo showing an 87-year-old man getting his booster shot at a vaccination centre in Frankfurt, Germany, last November. Photo: AP

A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against Covid-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.

The man from the eastern Germany city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, is said to have received up to 90 shots against Covid-19 at vaccination centres in the eastern state of Saxony for months until criminal police caught him this month, the German news agency dpa reported on Apr 3.