The Chiapas State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) detained a man who allegedly applied false vaccines against COVID-19 to people in the state, and granted them alleged certificates.
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The agency initiated an investigation folder against Gerardo “N”, who is accused of the crimes of sanitary matter of falsification of stamps, falsification of documents in general, usurpation of functions and improper use of uniforms and insignia, to the detriment of the Secretariat of Health of Chiapas and public health.
The 40-year-old man was detained in a hotel in Tapachula, where personnel from the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSyPC) found a plastic bag with empty syringe wrappers, two empty bottles of sodium chloride (serum), forms of vaccination certificates against COVID-19, a list of people who received the “vaccine”, a stamp for prescriptions and a Filipina with logos of the State Secretary of Health.
The man was placed at the disposal of the Public Ministry to determine his legal status.
According to local authorities, in Chiapas they have been confirmed 11,995 cases of COVID-19, and 848 people have died.
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The municipalities with the most accumulated infections are Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Tapachula, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán de Domínguez and Tonalá.
Chiapas is the second state with the fewest vaccinated people in the entire country, with only 29% of the adult population immunized, according to data from the federal Ministry of Health.
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