The health authorities of the town of Biella (Piedmont, northern Italy) they have denounced before the police (militarized police) a man who tried to get vaccinated using a silicone arm in order to achieve the covid health certificate.
The man, about 50 years old, went this Thursday to a vaccination center, where the nurse in charge of the supply noticed, at the time of perform the puncture, what was I showing him an arm with a silicone very similar to the skin, that encompassed from the shoulder to the deltoid muscle, where the needle is inserted.
By believing, at first, that eThe man had suffered an amputation and had presented him with the wrong arm, so in order not to put him in an awkward situation, He asked for the other, explained the health worker, Filippa Bau, to the Corriere della Sera.
But when he saw that he showed him a silicone arm “exactly the same as the other one”, the nurse understood that the man was trying to trick her into give you the drug in a fake arm.
“I realized, in an instant, that the man in front of me was trying to avoiding vaccination using a prosthesis of silicone in which he expected me to unknowingly inject the medicine into him “he explained.
Once discovered, the man tried to convince her to “overlook it” and continue with the charade, to which she refused and had her superiors summoned.
Finally, the man acknowledged that he had tried to trick them into getting the new reinforced health certificate that can only have people vaccinated or who have passed the disease and that from next Monday it will be necessary to access the interior of bars, restaurants, entertainment venues and public buildings.
The local health authorities filed a complaint with the police, who have reported the facts to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The president of the Piedmont region, Alberto Cirio, was very upset by “the seriousness of this gesture” and highlighted “the sacrifice” in terms of “human lives and social and economic costs” that the pandemic is costing.
The new health certificate Reinforcement will be added from this Monday to the current document, which also includes holders of a negative antigen test, and which is necessary to work, access public transport and transit through commercial areas.
These measures are aimed at further promoting vaccination in the country, which is stands at around 85% of the population with the complete regimen and 45.66% with the additional or booster dose.
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