Aussies skirt vaccine rules with black market certificates


A file photo shows a customer scanning a QR code to enter a department store in Melbourne. Australians began flocking to the online black market in fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates after a ban stopping the unvaccinated from entering local bars and restaurants was enacted. — AFP

MELBOURNE: A ban on unvaccinated Australians entering bars and restaurants nudged thousands to get jabbed – but it has also seen the rise of a thriving black market in fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates online.

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