The first cases of counterfeiting a vaccine jointly developed by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German Bioentech have been discovered.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Polish police confiscated a number of bottles of Pfizer-Bioentech vaccines from a man's apartment in January and arrested the man.
The liquid, believed to be the fake vaccine, was in a bottle that looked like a container for another pharmaceutical company's anti-wrinkle product, Pfizer said.
Pfizer's laboratory analysis of the liquid in question found that it contains hyaluronic acid, which is used to improve wrinkles, not a component of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Polish police know that no victims have received a fake vaccine that is believed to be an anti-wrinkle ingredient.
This man was accused of fraud.
In early February, Mexican police raided a hospital in northern Nuevo Leon and arrested six hospital officials who were administering fake Pfizer vaccines.
It was investigated that this hospital received about $1,000 per dose, about 1.12 million won in our money, and gave fake vaccine injections to more than 80 people.
"People were given distilled water," State Health Minister Manuel Delao Nuevo Leon told The Wall Street Journal that both the product number and the expiration date on the bottle were fake.
Pfizer will test exactly what liquid was in the bottle after confirming that the label has been counterfeit through special light and microscopic analysis.
It is not only Pfizer vaccines that have been counterfeit.
According to Interpol, the International Criminal Police Agency, China and South Africa seized thousands of bottles of counterfeit vaccines last month and arrested dozens of others.