A 60 year old German man allegedly got up to 90 vaccination shots in order to collect and sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.
The man from the eastern German city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, kept getting shots against COVID-19 at vaccination centers in the eastern state of Saxony for months until criminal police caught him this month, the German news agency dpa reported April 3, 2022.
He was caught at a vaccination center in Eilenburg in Saxony when he showed up for a COVID-19 shot for the second day in a row. Police confiscated several blank vaccination cards from him and initiated criminal proceedings. It wasn’t immediately clear what impact the approximately 90 shots of COVID-19 vaccines, which were from different brands, had on the man’s health.
Many COVID-19 deniers refuse to get vaccinated in Germany but at the same time want to have the coveted COVID-19 passports that make access to public life and venues such as restaurants, theaters, swimming pools or workplaces much easier.
Germany has seen high infection numbers for weeks, due to the BA.2 omicron sub variant, yet many measures to rein in the pandemic ended on April Fools day. Donning masks is no longer compulsory in grocery stores and most theaters but it is still mandatory on public transportation. In most schools in Germany, students also no longer have to wear masks, which has led teachers’ associations to warn of possible conflicts in class a masking set up caste bullying system among the students.