Hanoi: The police in North Vietnam have captured a businessman to make and sell Covid-19-19 negative test certificates, because the Southeast Asian country fights with his worst outbreak.
The wave of new infections since the end of April has forced the country to impose limiting movement in the third-third of the city and its province, many require people to move.
Tran Mr.
Duong, who runs a printing business in Bac Ninh Province, was arrested on Wednesday while selling six certificates to clients for 1 million Dong ($ 43.86), the Provincial Police Department said.
Duong, 34, claimed to be to the police that he had sold around 150 such documents, including those who were for a swab-based polymerase chain reaction test (PCR), according to a police statement on Thursday, which said further investigation was taking place.
Vietnam has recorded more than 241,000 coronavirus infections and at least 4,487 overall deaths, with most of them in recent months, which followed a year successfully.
($ 1 = 22,800 dong)