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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Aakash Hassan and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

Indian health workers allege widespread vaccine certificate fraud

A health worker prepares to administer a dosage of Covaxin vaccine in India
The Indian government has denied that any vaccine fraud is taking place. Photograph: Dipayan Bose/SOPA Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Health workers on the frontline of India’s Covid vaccination programme say people are being officially registered as double vaccinated without receiving both doses because of pressure to meet government targets.

Workers described how easy it was to falsely register second vaccine doses for people who did not attend appointments, by using personal records from their first dose and opting to bypass a code sent to their mobile phone.

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