Half of Hong Kong’s Covid Vaccine Exemptions Are Probably Fake
- Authorities invalidate more than 20,000 exemption certificates
- City leader John Lee said rulebreakers could derail reopening
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More than half the certificates Hong Kong doctors have given to patients exempting them from Covid-19 jabs are suspected to be fake.
Authorities have arrested a total of seven doctors for allegedly issuing notes fraudulently and from Oct. 12 will invalidate more than 20,000 exemptions those practitioners have given out, the government said Tuesday. That’s more than half the total number of certificates in the city that are currently valid.