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Ads for the sale of the coronavirus vaccine have already appeared on social media. They are posted by scammers, explained the head of the European Union police service, Catherine de Boll.
The European Union Police Service (Europol) warned of fraud in connection with the start of mass vaccination against coronavirus infection in EU countries, it reported “German wave“ on Sunday December 27 with reference to Europol head Catherine de Boll.
There is a real danger that criminals will try to take advantage of the huge demand for the vaccine, he said.
Ads for the sale of the coronavirus vaccine have already appeared on social media, de Boll said. These ads are posted by scammers, said the director of Europol. Those who responded to such offers will either receive nothing after payment, or a fake will be sent to them, which could have serious health consequences, De Boll warned.
Law enforcement officers must be prepared for attempts to steal the coronavirus vaccine, he said.
“During the first confinement, the gangs attacked, for example, vehicles wearing protective masks. Now there is that danger with the vaccine,” de Boll said.
Europol has identified places where these crimes are most likely to be committed. Police departments in European countries intend to cooperate with each other to prevent theft of the vaccine, writes Deutsche Welle.
EU countries received on December 26 a sufficient number of doses of vaccine for the entire population, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The immunization campaign, he said, was due to begin on December 27. Some countries began vaccinating their citizens against coronavirus infection a day earlier, on December 26. In particular, the authorities of Hungary, Slovakia and Germany did this.
Sean Marett, commercial director of the German company BioNTech, said that the EU countries by the end of 2020 will receive 12.5 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, which his company produces together with the American Pfizer.
BioNTech Co-Founder and CEO Ugur Shahin noted that the BNT162b2 vaccine is likely to be effective against the new strain of coronavirus found in the UK and some European countries.
The vaccine, according to Shahin, showed high efficiency against 20 coronavirus strains, which may indicate a high probability of its effectiveness against the British strain. Several countries have already approved a vaccine for emergency use, notably the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Bahrain.
In the world to December 22 223 potential coronavirus vaccines are being developed, 61 drugs are now in clinical trials, testifies data World Health Organization.
According to the American Johns Hopkins University on December 27, more than 80.3 million people have been infected with the coronavirus in the world since the start of the pandemic. 1.75 million have already died from COVID-19 and more than 45.4 million patients have recovered.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic.
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