Do you want a negative COVID test? Swindlers are already in the business

Ukraine is among the most dangerous countries regarding the coronavirus epidemic. However, people do not believe the numbers and say that their healthcare system and media continuously lie about the spread of the virus. People say that they know nobody who was ill because of COVID-19 while others say that authorities diagnosed them with false positives. Meanwhile, some circles are ready to produce negative tests for everybody willing to pay their price.

According to Magyar Hang, the healthcare system in Ukraine is catastrophic, so experts were right when they said that the country would not be able to deal with the epidemic. Meanwhile, people do not follow instructions, and even the authorities are unable or unwilling to make them do so. Therefore, the number of new infections is high.

There are a lot of frauds around testing, for example. It once happened that border guards found

a lot of test tubes with samples from COVID-19- suspected patients thrown away near the Hungarian-Ukrainian border.

Before the virus started to spread in Europe, there were already circles in Ukraine that wanted to sell fake vaccines to frightened people.

Therefore, it is not surprising that these circles produce negative coronavirus tests for those who can pay them in large quantities. Officially, laboratories make the tests from EUR 20 to 50, but for many people, that is too much since a lot of them live from only EUR 130 per month.

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In Transcarpathia, the Ukrainian county near Hungary, 6 laboratories can do COVID-19 tests, but since public transport is also catastrophic in the region, they are not an option for many. As a result, there are quite a lot of people who make fake documents proving that the given person has a negative COVID-19 test. For example,

some drivers do that in their buses,

and the business seems to be successful if the border guards check the documents only superficially. Sometimes people believe that such documents are enough and that they are still law-abiding citizens, but they do not want to stand in the long queues of the Transcarpathian laboratories.

Not long ago, the leader of one of the most famous local laboratories reported unknown perpetrators to the police who abused the name of his facility by printing fake documents about negative COVID-19 tests. Those who bought them did not even understand why border guards turned them back to Ukraine.

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Source: Magyar Hang