They were sold for up to $ 2,500 each.

The American pharmaceutical company Pfizer confirmed on Wednesday that suspicious doses of its anti-Covid vaccine seized in Mexico and Poland were counterfeit.

Some 80 people were given these fake vaccines in a Mexican clinic, apparently ineffective on health but ineffective in the face of the virus, reported the

Wall Street Journal

.

The vials were found in coolers meant to keep drinks cool and had fake lot numbers and expiration dates, Mexican officials said.

According to the government spokesperson for Covid, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, "no product has been found that could harm the health" of those to whom it was injected.

Doses of the Sputnik V vaccine also controlled

In Poland, the confiscated liquid was a cosmetic product, probably an anti-wrinkle cream, said the Pfizer laboratory. “We are aware that in the current climate, favored by the ease and convenience of electronic commerce and the anonymity afforded by the Internet, there is going to be an increase in fraud, counterfeiting and other illegal activities relating to vaccines and covid-19 treatments, ”a Pfizer spokesperson told ABC News.

In March, the World Health Organization (WHO) had already expressed concern that “falsified” Pfizer vaccines had been discovered in Mexico.

She feared that the product "might still be in circulation in the region".

According to the

Wall Street Journal

, Mexico is also controlling a delivery of what is billed as 6,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, seized last month on a private plane bound for Honduras.

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